Columbia Healthcare Center

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than its overall score. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category scores came in the category of long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 74.07407 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of D. Nursing scores are based largely on nurse staffing levels. This particular place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This figure is well below the national average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This facility performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to our final area, this nursing home did not fare very well. With a very poor grade of F in short-term care, this is its poorest category. Short-term care grades are often employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Given its score in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 3.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.