Colonial Village

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is it received an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In that category, we gave this facility an A. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Although this facility had a few 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.

Among its many impressive scores, this facility was awarded a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening illness for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not leave this to chance. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning our third area, this facility received a strong short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is often a fair measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In the last category we assessed, this facility was awarded an impressive grade grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the nursing home wrapped up a straight A profile. Our nursing category includes many subcategories, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.