Colonial Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it earned an impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A-. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid facilities that have too many deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

As it turns out, this facility only earned a D for its short-term care score, which happens to be one of its more respectable category scores. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. With its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of skill of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with patients. This place averaged just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to the last area, this facility really didn't fare very well in this category either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as terrible as it gets. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. After assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this nursing home vaccinated 89.24303 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be significantly lower than the national average. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.