River Towne Center
5131 Warm Springs Rd, Columbus GA 31909 · (706) 561-1371 · 60.42% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Columbus, Georgia, River Towne Center is one of seven available facilities in the area. Featuring an overall score of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. Keep in mind that Columbus received a far more impressive city grade of B+, so you should definitely consider other options in the city. Surprisingly, we were able to give this nursing home some positive feedback for our inspections category, which you can read more about below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 210 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this nursing home a terrible overall score, we gave it a grade of B+ for our inspections category. This was due to the facility receiving a quality inspection report this year. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had too many deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Tragically, we gave this facility an F for its short-term care score. Short-term care grades are typically employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. With its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected here. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 44.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. There are a number of factors included in this area. Many of these subcategories relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal marks in several of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at more than double the national average in this datapoint.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we analyzed is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a bottom of the barrel grade in this category as well. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is obviously somewhat alarming. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated just 89.85507 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 2.07 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric wasn't as bad since it had more complex patients. This is its best score in this category
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
River Towne Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents which were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percent of long-term care residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric 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 indicates the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's usually correlates with higher quality rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better