Columbus Healthcare Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We believe that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This facility had 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in any of the categories labeled J through L. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to place resident health or safety in imminent harm or jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This nursing home also didn't grade out poorly in the category of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a grade of C in that area, which turned out to be among its better scores. In our short-term care category, we try to craft a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

The third category we graded is long-term care. This nursing home's received an abysmal long-term care grade where it was given an F. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the nursing home did not perform well in our measures relating to patient care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this facility administered the vaccine to a relatively low 74.842766 percent of its patients, which is a bit of a concern. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

The final area we scored is nursing. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category, which is a rock bottom score. Our nursing rating weighs a number of factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. In addition to performing badly in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home also had rock bottom scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than twice the national average in both of these statistics. This is concerning when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing this nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.