Colonial Nursing Center of Rockford

This facility's overall grade was bolstered by the fact that it has received favorable health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better scores in that category, with a grade of B+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility an B. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we analyzed was short-term care, where this facility received a C in this area. In determining these short-term care grades, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

The final category we graded was long-term care. This nursing home received a C in this category. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the data points we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. We were a bit alarmed this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to just 82.14286 percent of its residents. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.