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Life Care Center of Columbia

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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Life Care Center of Columbia's website

2514 Faraway Drive,
Columbia SC 29223

(803) 865-1999

52.23% estimated occupancy 1

Life Care Center of Columbia is on a list of 10 nursing homes in Columbia, South Carolina. This facility appears to be one of the higher-graded nursing homes we assessed. A grade of this caliber requires high-end scores across the board. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top quarter of all facilities in the United States. As you can find below, this facility also performed well in our category ratings. It is hard to poke holes in this place's profile.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy

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Nurse Quality

Grade: A

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. There are several datapoints within this area. Many of these criteria are tied to nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of moving a patient more often.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home was given a favorable short-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services To have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

In the final category we analyzed, this facility received an impressive grade grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this score, the facility rounded out an elite report card. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 88.17204 percent of its patients for pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Life Care Center of Columbia Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 6.07% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 0.72% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric indicates the percentage of long-term patients that sustained a fall which caused serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be a sign of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 1.44% of Patients had UTIs

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indication of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric could also be skewed for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 7.37% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric indicates the percentage of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 9.45% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-minus

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 5.26% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. High levels of depression could be an indicator a lower level of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 87.58% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: F

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 27.46% of Patients

This is the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-plus

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 32.74% of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents that were able to retain mobility. Some experts argue that mobility is important for patients physical and mental health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: F

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 32.74% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: F

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 22.18% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In Life Care Center of Columbia, 73.78% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.

Scores for Columbia, SC

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

Looking for more options? Columbia, South Carolina has 9 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Providence HealthAcute Care Hospitals 3.47 miles away120 Gateway Corporate Blvd Columbia South Carolina 29203Proprietary(803) 256-5300
  • Prisma Health Richland HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.63 miles away5 Medical Park Columbia South Carolina 29203Voluntary non-profit - Private(803) 296-2548
  • Prisma Health BaptistAcute Care Hospitals 8.19 miles away1330 Taylor at Marion St Columbia South Carolina 29220Voluntary non-profit - Private(803) 296-5678
  • Lexington Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 12.45 miles away2720 Sunset Blvd West Columbia South Carolina 29169Government - Hospital District or Authority(803) 791-2000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Dentsville Kidney Center2.96 miles away201 Columbia Mall Blvd Suite 141 Columbia South Carolina 29223Dialysis Stations: 10 (803) 865-1068
  • Fresenius Medical Care Cna Kidney Centers, LLC3.83 miles away140 Highland Center Drive Columbia South Carolina 29203CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (803) 736-0473
  • Fmc Meadowlake Dialysis4.94 miles away7631 Wilson Blvd Columbia South Carolina 29203CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (803) 754-7377
  • Fresenius Medical Care Columbia7.16 miles away2125 Adams Grove Rd Columbia South Carolina 29203CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (803) 779-7511
  • Fresenius Medical Care South Columbia7.16 miles away2139 Adams Grove Road Columbia South Carolina 29203Dialysis Stations: 21 (803) 779-4073
  • Central Columbia Kidney Center7.6 miles away3511 Medical Drive Columbia South Carolina 29203Dialysis Stations: 25 (803) 771-0518
  • North Main Kidney Center7.67 miles away3900 North Main Street Suite A Columbia South Carolina 29203Dialysis Stations: 21 (803) 779-1201
  • Fresenius Medical Care Columbia Home7.83 miles away121 Park Central Dr Columbia South Carolina 29203Dialysis Stations: 2 (803) 799-1266