Columbia Manor Care Center

Columbia Manor Care Center is one of eight facilities located in Columbia, Missouri. This is a good nursing home with a B overall. This was right in line with the city grade in Columbia. You could certainly do much worse than this facility. This facility's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which is addressed in the next section.

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it an A+ in this category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home was given impressive marks in the category of long-term care as well. Consequently, we gave it one of our most elite scores in that category with a score of A-. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the nursing home population. The last statistic we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 3.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. While this wasn't as favorable as some of its other scores in this category, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities due to some of the medical complexity of residents.

This facilities third most favorable category is short-term care. We awarded it a C in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack grade in this category. With our short-term care assessment, we try to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 42.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The last category we rated is nursing, which ended up being this facility's worst area. We awarded this facility a D in that area. Sadly, this score pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to some degree. The nursing score is based on numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. With just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Although this nursing home didn't excel in the area of nursing hours, it surprised us in some of the quality-based metrics in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This facility was above average in this datapoint, which is one redeeming quality we found in this category.