Colonial Health & Rehabilitation Center

This facility's best category score came in the area of nursing. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B+. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this category. When calculating our nursing ratings, we look at both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of turning residents more often.

This facility also was given a positive short-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we gave them a grade of B+ in this area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This score is considered to be a meaningful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility received somewhat favorable health inspections in recent years. We awarded them a decent score in that area, with a grade of C. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

The last area we scored is long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of C in the category. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 53.531597 percent of its residents. This is multiple points less than what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.