Colonial Manor Care Center

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we gave it a B- for our long-term care rating. This is more respectable than the nursing home's overall score. Our long-term care ratings are more meaningful for residents requiring more conventional assistance associated with personal care. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.7013 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We were also pleasantly surprised to award this facility a relatively favorable health inspection grade as well. We gave it a B- in this category, which was much better than its overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. Surprisingly, this nursing home was assessed a category L deficiency, which is unexpected based on its inspection rating. These are the most concerning deficiencies. This category means the government inspectors uncovered a widespread deficiency placing resident health or safety in immediate danger. Even a single deficiency in this category is concerning. While other aspects of this nursing home's inspection report were favorable, we have some reservations.

We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. Nursing grades are mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were far below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The last area we looked at was short-term care, proved to be this facility's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. Our short-term care grades are arguably most critical for individuals in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. As you might expect, we learned that this place offers substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.