Columbus Transitional Care and Rehabilitation
2100 Midway St, Columbus IN 47201 · (812) 372-8447 · 40.89% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Columbus Transitional Care and Rehabilitation is a very-large government-owned facility in Columbus, Indiana. We gave this facility an F, which is just about as bad as it gets in our grading scheme. This facility does not seem to have any redeeming qualities. In spite of all this, this nursing home did just fine in our inspections category, which you can find more information about below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 212 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home wound up receiving a bottom of the barrel grade in our long-term care area. It received an F in this category. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.4012 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.44 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Short-term Care Quality
Tragically, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is frequently a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Considering its weak rating in this area, we weren't surprised to discover this facility provides significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 42.1 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the last category, this nursing home really didn't perform very well here either. Due to a very poor grade of F in nursing, this is really as bad as it gets. There are quite a few data points included in this grade. Many of these subcategories relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Columbus Transitional Care and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can limit 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 tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term care residents who are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are typically used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines important for resident well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better