Integrity Hc of Columbia

Integrity Hc of Columbia is an average-sized nursing home located in Columbia, Illinois. Our grading scheme was not favorable to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall score of F. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Columbia. Finally, we were surprised to learn that this nursing home earned a decent grade in our nursing category. You can find additional information about this category below.

Even though we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a somewhat respectable nursing score this year. We gave it a B- in this category. The nursing rating weighs quite a few datapoints, however, the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this facility got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning residents more often.

Turning to the category of long-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in this area. As it turns out, this wound up being its second best grade. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category may not provide the type of consistent around the clock care that some other nursing homes offer. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 93 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.2 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also alarming.

The next category we assessed was short-term care, where this facility received an F. In our short-term care rating, we strive to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 30.8 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection grade. We would scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home had a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies uncovered by the government inspectors had potential to pose actual harm to patients. Finally, this facility also received 48 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.