Colonial Nursing Home

While we didn't rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable short-term care grade. We awarded it a B in this category. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to craft a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Shockingly, this nursing home actually earned a good score in the area of inspections as well. We gave it a B for that category, which is one of our better grades. Few nursing homes that were this poor overall received multiple category grades of this caliber. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that have a long list of severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. There are numerous subcategories included in this area. Many of the criteria reflect staffing levels. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is a low total compared to most other nursing homes. Finally, although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did well in this subcategory.

The final category we assessed was long-term care. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. In a long-term care setting, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After considering the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 98.1982 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.