Willow Brook Christian Home

Willow Brook Christian Home is a small non-profit nursing home located in Columbus, Ohio. We gave this facility a very respectable overall grade of A. As a matter of fact, we ranked it as the second best facility in Columbus. Even in a city featuring 36 nursing homes, this facility really stands out as a great selection. If you scroll down, you will see this place's category scores, which are also impressive.

We also want to note that this facility excelled in our nursing category. We gave them an A+ in this category. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This facility provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Roughly one quarter of that care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these figures exceed the national average. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we looked at in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government 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 dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also was awarded an excellent short-term care grade, with a score of A. In calculating these short-term care scores, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Ohio in this area with 61.5 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, less than half of their short-term patients are able to return home.

The final category we scored is long-term care. We awarded this nursing home one of our better grades in that category, with a B. Even though this was not as high as a few of its other grades, it is nevertheless a positive grade. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.25373 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. This facility was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.17 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a significantly better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.