Columbia Health Care Center is an average-sized government-owned nursing home located in Wyocena, Wisconsin. We gave this nursing home an A- overall grade, ranking it in the top fifth of all facilities in the United States. We could not find many bad things to say about this nursing home. Its grades are as good as they get. The best part of this nursing home's strong report card is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section
Columbia Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Government - County
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Pain Management
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this facility also earned an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Among its many high-end grades, this nursing home received a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in this area. 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 assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.683395 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping 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 number.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Nursing grades are largely based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place 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 typically be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we looked at is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a decent grade in this area, with a grade of B-. While this was not as strong as many of this facility's other grades, it is nevertheless not the end of the world. Our short-term care scores are arguably more important for those in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Columbia Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Columbia Health Care Center, 6.93% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Columbia Health Care Center, 3.27% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are considered to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Columbia Health Care Center, 3.19% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Columbia Health Care Center, 13.83% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used to treat several conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Columbia Health Care Center, 15.45% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Columbia Health Care Center, 6.26% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term patients demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reliable measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Columbia Health Care Center, 92.96% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Columbia Health Care Center, 13.23% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Columbia Health Care Center, 20.17% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percent of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Columbia Health Care Center, 1.28 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Columbia Health Care Center, 20.17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Columbia Health Care Center, 13.08 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Columbia Health Care Center, 75.51% Percentage of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Divine Savior HealthcareAcute Care Hospitals 9.26 miles away2817 New Pinery Road Portage Wisconsin 53901Voluntary non-profit - Private(608) 742-4131
- Columbus Community HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 18.21 miles away1515 Park Ave Columbus Wisconsin 53925Voluntary non-profit - Private(920) 623-2200
Nearby Dialysis
- Divine Savior Healthcare Dialysis9.31 miles away2817 New Pinery Road Portage Wisconsin 53901Dialysis Stations: 6 (608) 745-5160