Columbus Care and Rehabilitation Center

Columbus Care and Rehabilitation Center is a facility located in Columbus, Nebraska, a city with 28,185 people. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is one of the best grades that we offer. A score of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top third of all facilities in the United States. The best aspect of this facility's impressive report card is its nursing score. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph

On top of earning a great overall score, this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. We awarded it an A for that category. Nursing scores are largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, this place was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. For example, it performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

In addition, this facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

The third area we graded was long-term care. This facility was given an impressive long-term care score, with a B+ in this area. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the impressive nursing hours and other staffing provided by this nursing home, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.651566 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is much higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.55 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Switching gears to the next category, this facility was given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a B+ in that area, wrapping up one of our better report cards. Our short-term care scores are likely most meaningful for those needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers at least 50% more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 39.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.