Colonial Manor Nursing Home

Although we did not rate this facility well overall, we want to point out its decent grade of B- in the category of nursing. Nursing scores are mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This place averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is not an impressive total. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its patients.

This facility's second most favorable category came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a C. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit concerned this facility provided the vaccine to just 83.009705 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility earned mediocre inspections in recent years. We gave them a C in this category. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility had 3 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This indicates it avoided the more ominous categories of deficiencies. Finally, we would like to note that this nursing home has received government fines recently. Fortunately these were on the lower end of the spectrum. Nevertheless, this still is not what you hoped to find.

The final category we scored is short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in that category. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.