Spring Harbor at Green Island is a small nursing home located in Columbus, Georgia. We gave this facility a very impressive overall grade of A. Consequently, it outscored the vast majority of the nursing homes in Columbus by a sizable margin. This is an impressive achievement since the city has plenty of very good nursing homes. Based on all of the relevant data, you can't go wrong with this place. Keep reading to see this nursing home's category ratings, which are also quite good. It's hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.
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Spring Harbor at Green Island
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a strong overall rating, this nursing home also received an A+ inspection grade. This grade is based on its recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection ratings are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. We weren't able to locate information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received an A+ for its long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 80 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. The nursing grade is based on a host of datapoints. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our last area, this nursing home also performed well in the short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a B+ in this category. This finalized a very strong report card. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 4.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Spring Harbor at Green Island Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 0% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term patients who suffered from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 10% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls are routinely the result of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 3.53% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely caused by a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this datapoint may also be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 3.33% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 9.41% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 7.95% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. Increased levels of depression could be a sign worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 88.78% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 9.38% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 17.37% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who retained mobility levels. Many would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 17.37% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 10.59% of Patients
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Spring Harbor at Green Island, 81.2% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts believe that this is a measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for Columbus, GA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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