Columbia Post Acute

This facility earned favorable marks in the area of long-term care this year. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a B+. This proved to be the nursing home's top grade and helped its profile quite a bit. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. It does not look like this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility also received a favorable score in our short-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our short-term care grade is typically used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last measure we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also received a strong inspection score. Inspection grades are based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded this facility a grade of B in this area. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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.

This nursing home's least impressive category was nursing, which is the final category we assessed. For this category, we awarded this facility a grade of D. We assessed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our grade in this area. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these data points to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.