Colonial Center
2365 Nashville Road, Bowling Green KY 42101 · (270) 842-1641 · 91.04% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Colonial Center is in Bowling Green, Kentucky, a city with 104,282 people. With an overall grade of C, this is likely a decent nursing home. Based on our assessment, this nursing home should be a good fit for quite a few people. This place did not fare well in every category we looked at, but it did not receive any rock-bottom grades either. More information about its category grades can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 48 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent health inspection reports in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It does not appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We would like to have more information about this facility. Without the deficiency data, it is a challenge to evaluate it in the inspections category.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's second most favorable category turned out to be long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 86.25 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly below what we were hoping for. The last datapoint we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had a relatively high 2.92 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Neither its vaccination record nor its hospitalization rate were strengths for this place in this category.
Nurse Quality
The next highest grade we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. Our nursing score is based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This facility averages just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day, but a significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. We apply additional weight to these skilled nursing hours in calculating our nursing scores. Lastly, we also factored some quality measures into our nursing scores. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major metrics we look at, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are usually reliable measures of the quality of nursing care available.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we rated was short-term care, proved to be this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that area. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more meaningful for individuals requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Given its weak score in this category, we were not stunned to find that this facility offers far less physical therapy per patient than the average facility. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 29.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. This statistic was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Colonial Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents who were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better