Columbia Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center
1506 North Main Street, Columbia MS 39429 · (601) 736-9557 · 82.96% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Columbia Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center is an average-sized facility in Columbia, Mississippi. We gave it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the pack grade. You could certainly do worse than this nursing home. You also may want to review this nursing home's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 108 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's long-term care rating is notably more impressive than its overall score. Due to a strong performance in this area, it received one of our higher grades in that category with a B+. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.77778 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents healthy. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.49 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as favorable as most of its other scores in this area, this statistic may be skewed for some facilities due to the medical complexity of residents.
Facility Inspections
This facility also earned a very favorable inspection grade. Its inspection score proved to be its second best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors 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. Based on this, we still had a generally positive view of this nursing home's recent inspections.
Nurse Quality
We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of B-. We assessed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses were with residents, in computing our rating in this category. With 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this nursing home surpassed the vast majority of facilities. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed admirably in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's least impressive category is short-term care, which is the final area we assessed. Sadly, it received an F for this category. Despite some respectable scores in other areas, this grade is still concerning so we felt obligated to draw your attention to it. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With a score of this caliber for this category, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home was well below average in the two key staffing figures we looked at. It supplied significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 28.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Columbia Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are routinely linked to poor nursing care. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who are given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely more on these drugs due to having more residents suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally used to treat patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate erosion of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better