Colonial Poplin Nursing Home is a small nursing home located in Fremont, New Hampshire. With an A- overall grade, we rated this facility in the top quarter of all facilities in the United States. As far as we can see, this nursing home looks like a no brainer for just about anybody. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph
Colonial Poplin Nursing Home
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Among its many elite scores, this facility received an excellent long-term care score. In fact, it received a score of A- in this category. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 99.02912 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Nurse Quality
This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. In computing a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
In our final category, we awarded this facility a A+ for its short-term care grade. This finished off an elite report card. Our short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Colonial Poplin Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 6.48% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This measures the percentage of long-term stay residents which are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 5.13% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that have had a fall leading to serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 2.56% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of long-term care residents that have experienced a UTI. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 16.15% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 14.9% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that are administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 6.23% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients exhibiting signs of depression. High rates of depression could be a sign lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 94.94% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 18.44% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 18.81% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 1.55 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 18.81 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 13.79 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Colonial Poplin Nursing Home, 81.87% Percentage of Resident
Measures the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Exeter Hospital IncAcute Care Hospitals 9.77 miles away5 Alumni Drive Exeter New Hampshire 03833Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 778-7311
- Parkland Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 12.16 miles away1 Parkland Drive Derry New Hampshire 03038Proprietary(603) 421-2100
- Elliot HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.22 miles away1 Elliot Way Manchester New Hampshire 03103Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 669-5300
- Anna Jaques HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.79 miles away25 Highland Avenue Newburyport Massachusetts 01950Voluntary non-profit - Private(978) 463-1000
- Catholic Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 17.11 miles away100 Mcgregor Street Manchester New Hampshire 03102Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 668-3545
- Portsmouth Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.04 miles away333 Borthwick Ave Portsmouth New Hampshire 03801Proprietary(603) 436-5110
- Holy Family HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.29 miles away70 East Street Methuen Massachusetts 01844Proprietary(978) 687-0156
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc Dialysis Services of Exeter10.53 miles away1 Hampton Road, Suite 109 Exeter New Hampshire 03833Dialysis Stations: 13 (603) 777-9931
- Davita Derry Dialysis15.56 miles away1 Action Blvd suite2 Londonderry New Hampshire 03053Dialysis Stations: 13 (603) 421-9724
- Fresenius Medical Care Londonderry15.56 miles away1f Common Drive Londonderry New Hampshire 03053Dialysis Stations: 13 (603) 434-4517
- Versailles Dialysis LLC15.86 miles away18 Pelham Road Salem New Hampshire 03079Dialysis Stations: 10 (603) 870-9487
- Bio-Medical Applications of New Hampshire Inc16.16 miles away19 Keewadin Drive Suite 1 Salem New Hampshire 03079Dialysis Stations: 1 (603) 870-0969
- Davita Manchester Dialysis16.28 miles away903 Hanover Street Manchester New Hampshire 03104Dialysis Stations: 10 (603) 621-4903
- Fresenius Medical Care of Methuen16.6 miles away421 Merrimack Street Methuen Massachusetts 01844Dialysis Stations: 21 (978) 975-3117
- Manchester Kidney Center16.73 miles away1750 Elm Street Suite 100 Manchester New Hampshire 03103CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (603) 647-4042