Colonial Lakes Health Care
15204 W Colonial Dr, Winter Garden FL 34787 · (407) 877-2394 · 93.11% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Colonial Lakes Health Care is one of a mere three facilities located in Winter Garden, Florida. Sporting an overall grade of B-, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. You could definitely do worse than this nursing home. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its remarkable inspection score, which we will address in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 180 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its nearly flawless health inspection reports in recent years. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple relatively minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this nursing home a strong score in long-term care. This facility received a grade of B in this category, which turns out to be one of our more favorable grades. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.13805 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.79 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this category, this figure may be skewed for some nursing homes due to the preexisting medical conditions of patients.
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 B-. Nursing ratings are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed admirably in this metric. Avoiding serious falls is generally an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls can be prevented if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its residents.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we scored was short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D for our short-term care category, making this its worst category grade. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is typically a meaningful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. It appears that this facility was subpar in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 37.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Colonial Lakes Health Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall resulting in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better