Magnolia Manor of Columbus Nursing Center - East

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall score is its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that category, with an A. This is a much better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

We also awarded this facility a strong score in long-term care. This facility received a B in this area, which is one of our higher scores. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.42105 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

The next area we scored was short-term care, which is this nursing home's worst category. We gave this nursing home a D in that area. Of course, this score pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Unfortunately, we learned that this facility offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.