White Oak Manor - Columbia

White Oak Manor - Columbia is an average-sized nursing home located in Columbia, South Carolina. It looks like this is a very respectable facility. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable rating. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Columbia. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.

This nursing home received a quality overall grade as described above, but we especially want to emphasize its excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave it an A+ in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we graded this facility so well is that it received a favorable long-term care score. In fact, long-term care is its second most favorable category grade. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.93578 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. The last datapoint we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 1.79 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. The nursing grade analyzes a handful of components, many of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. This place performed admirably in this statistic. Avoiding serious falls is often an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility offers enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

This nursing home's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. We gave it an F for this category. In spite of multiple strong grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless somewhat alarming so we wanted to draw your attention to it. Short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 24.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this facility's short-term care score.