Astoria Place of Columbus

We really could not find anything positive to say about this place. It received a lowly D in the category of short-term care. In computing these short-term care scores, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Given its grade in this category, we were not surprised to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection score, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This particular facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing rating is largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our last area, this facility didn't perform well here either. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 93.04556 percent of its residents. This is a few points below what we were hoping for but still a decent figure. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.