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St Anne's Retirement Community

  • Nursing Home
  • Independent Living
  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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3952 Columbia Avenue,
Columbia PA 17512

(717) 285-5443

60.25% estimated occupancy 1

St Anne's Retirement Community is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Columbia, Pennsylvania. After receiving an A overall grade, this facility has the distinction of being one of the top 100 facilities in Pennsylvania. This is an impressive accomplishment in a state with a long list of high-end facilities. This is really as good of a nursing home as you'll find. If you look below, you can see this nursing home's category grades, which are also impressive.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Dialysis Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Optometry
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Awards

Top Nursing Home in Pennsylvania badge

Top Nursing Home in Pennsylvania Awards 2021

Best Nursing Home in Columbia, Pennsylvania badge

Best Nursing Home in Columbia, Pennsylvania Awards 2021

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-plus

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our nursing rating is mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A

We also would like to alert you to the fact that this nursing home was given a strong grade of A in our long-term care category. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Lastly, 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 figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

The last area we assessed is short-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B. This actually ended up being this nursing home's weakest category. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when their weakest grade still is superior to most other facilities. In determining our short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 3.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

St Anne's Retirement Community Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-plus

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 2.87% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 6.82% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients who have had a fall resulting in major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 3.64% of Patients had UTIs

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffered from UTI's. Although a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is problematic to compare different nursing homes due to differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 20.08% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: C

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 23.58% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic indicates the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 0.78% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. High levels of depression could imply worse patient care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 100% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 12.56% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 21.78% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 21.78% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-plus

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 3.86% of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In St Anne's Retirement Community, 78.83% of Resident

This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Lancaster General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.56 miles away555 North Duke Street Lancaster Pennsylvania 17604Voluntary non-profit - Other(717) 299-5511
  • Upmc LititzAcute Care Hospitals 10.03 miles away1500 Highlands Drive Lititz Pennsylvania 17543Proprietary(717) 625-5670
  • York HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.72 miles away1001 South George Street York Pennsylvania 17403Voluntary non-profit - Private(717) 851-2345
  • Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.48 miles away169 Martin Avenue Ephrata Pennsylvania 17522Voluntary non-profit - Other(717) 733-0311

Nearby Dialysis

  • Davita - Suburban Campus Dialysis5.34 miles away2100 Harrisburg Pike, Suite 390 Lancaster Pennsylvania 17604CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (717) 397-4019
  • Davita - Manheim Pike Dialysis6.45 miles away1650 Manheim Pike Lancaster Pennsylvania 17601CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (717) 519-6978
  • Davita - Lancaster9.07 miles away1412 East King Street Lancaster Pennsylvania 17602CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (717) 392-1552
  • Davita - Elizabethtown Dialysis12.04 miles away844 North Hanover Street Elizabethtown Pennsylvania 17022Dialysis Stations: 12 (717) 361-0151
  • Physicians Dialysis of Lancaster, LLC12.69 miles away345 W. Main St., Suite 202 Leola Pennsylvania 17540Dialysis Stations: 13 (717) 556-0080
  • u.s. Renal Care - Central York, LLC14.5 miles away1920 Queenswood Road, Suite 100 York Pennsylvania 17403CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 13 (717) 843-7380
  • Total Renal Care, Inc.15.12 miles away308 St. Charles Way York Pennsylvania 17403CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 47 (717) 430-5454
  • u.s. Renal Care - York17.96 miles away1975 Kenneth Road York Pennsylvania 17408CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (717) 764-8322