Colonial Village

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ in our short-term care rating. In crafting our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Our nursing grade includes quite a few subcategories, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning patients at least once a day.

The final area we looked at turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. However, even its lowest point would be a strength for many nursing homes. We gave it a strong grade of B for long-term care. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.