Colonial Manor of Randolph

In addition to receiving a strong overall rating, this facility earned an A+ inspection score. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category typically have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we rated this facility so favorably is that it received a strong long-term care grade. In fact, long-term care turned out to be its second highest category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A-. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we finished looking at the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.2381 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home is also strong in the category of short-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It performed more favorably than most facilities in this area. Short-term care grades are vital for people requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final area we scored was nursing. In this category, we awarded this facility an acceptable grade of C. This is this nursing home's least impressive category. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our grade in this area. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is well below average. Finally, although this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did well in this statistic.