Colonial Tyler Care Center

Colonial Tyler Care Center is located in Tyler, Texas. The city has 144,160 people. With an overall grade of D, this is a lower end nursing home. If you aren't happy with this facility's overall grade, you should be able to find a better option in Tyler. The city has at least 10 other nursing homes. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection score. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category grades

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that area, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's long-term care score ended up being one of its better features. The nursing home was awarded a grade of B- in this category. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 97.38806 percent of its residents. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 2.5 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than the majority of nursing homes due to it having more complex patients.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. There are quite a few criteria within this category. Most of the subcategories reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. This nursing home also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.

The final area we looked at was short-term care. This nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade of F in that area. In forming these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. With its score in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 36.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.