Colonial Oaks Health Care Center is a senior living facility located in Marion, Indiana, a city with 44,485 people. Sporting an overall rating of B-, we surprisingly graded this nursing home as the highest graded nursing home in Marion. An overall score in this range is more often than not a solid indicator of a middle of the pack facility. This facility seems to have a few things working in its favor. We were also pleased to find that this place received consistently decent grades in each of the other areas we looked at. Additional information about these categories can be found below.
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Colonial Oaks Health Care Center
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- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. Its inspection grade was far better than its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it an A+. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this nursing home a decent grade in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of B-. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. It doesn't appear that this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next best category is long-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this category. Our long-term care grade focuses on a facility's personal care instead of the skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is more than the majority of nursing homes. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
The next category we analyzed is nursing. In that category, we gave this facility a C. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we assess the number of hours nurses are caring for patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This place averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is well below average. Finally, while this nursing home didn't rank well in terms of its nursing hours, it fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Colonial Oaks Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 6.56% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 1.45% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric tells you the percent of long-term stay residents that suffered falls resulting in serious injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 0.37% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term care residents who sustained a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic may be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 2.94% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 23.02% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 6.13% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 98.73% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 9.7% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 9.96% of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to preserving the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 9.96% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 10.28% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Colonial Oaks Health Care Center, 97.74% of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for Marion, IN
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Marion, Indiana has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Marion General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.67 miles away441 N Wabash Ave Marion Indiana 46952Voluntary non-profit - Private(765) 660-6000
- Indiana University Health Blackford HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 15.61 miles away410 Pilgrim Blvd Hartford City Indiana 47348Voluntary non-profit - Private(765) 348-0300
- St Vincent Mercy HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 18.85 miles away1331 S a St Elwood Indiana 46036Voluntary non-profit - Church(765) 552-4743
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Grant County Dialysis4.48 miles away1797 West Kem Road Marion Indiana 46952CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (765) 662-9792
- Fmc - Elwood19.81 miles away1805 S. Anderson Street Elwood Indiana 46036Dialysis Stations: 12 (765) 557-2362