Columbus Alzheimer's Care Center

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this place really excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this facility's more impressive category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 99.73753 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to the category of short-term care, this facility received a grade of just D in that area. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Given its score in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the data we assessed. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The final category we analyzed is nursing. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is a very poor score. This is certainly a significant disappointment. The nursing rating includes a variety of data points. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This statistic is quite a bit below the national average. To go along with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this place had poor marks in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percent of patients having falls which led to major injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing score.