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Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: D
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3550 Central Ave,
Columbus IN 47203

(812) 379-9669

85.71% estimated occupancy 1

Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home in Columbus, Indiana. This facility received an overall grade of D, which is a subpar grade. If you are not satisfied with this facility's rather poor overall grade, you will be pleased to know there are four other nursing homes in Columbus. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • Amputee Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Podiatry
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Optometry
  • Oncology Care
  • Audiology
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Aquatic Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A

While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

This nursing home received its next highest category score in the area of long-term care. We gave this facility a B- in this area, which is an acceptable score. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.25926 percent of its residents. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Sadly, this nursing home only received a D for its short-term care rating, which is not an impressive grade. With our short-term care grade, we try to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Given its grade in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we assessed. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

The last area we graded is nursing, where this nursing home was given an abysmal grade here also. It received an F for this area, which is definitely a major concern. There are quite a few subcategories within this grade. Most of the factors are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. In addition to its weak nursing hour totals, this facility earned poor scores in several of the quality-based measures we considered in calculating our nursing grades. We found that more of this facility's residents sustained falls which led to major injury. We would argue that many falls could likely be prevented with better nursing care. This metric contributed to this facility receiving a poor nursing score.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 7.14% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-minus

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 3.7% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Major falls which result in injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: F

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 8.24% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 8.8% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for treating several medical conditions, including dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: C

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 24.71% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: F

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 54.62% of Patients

This is the percent of residents who are showing signs of depression. Increased rates of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 98.5% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 20.26% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Some argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 12.61% of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels. Some would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to the physical well-being of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 12.61% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 13.75% of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center, 73.46% of Resident

Measures the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements.

Scores for Columbus, IN

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A

Looking for more options? Columbus, Indiana has 4 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Columbus Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.61 miles away2400 E 17th St Columbus Indiana 47201Government - Local(812) 379-4441
  • Johnson Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.04 miles away1125 W Jefferson St Franklin Indiana 46131Government - Local(317) 736-3300
  • Schneck Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 19.52 miles away411 W Tipton St Seymour Indiana 47274Government - Local(812) 522-2349

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fmc - Columbus Bartholomew1.53 miles away2325 18th Street, Suite 120 Columbus Indiana 47201CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (812) 375-0254
  • Fmc - Franklin19.04 miles away1159 West Jefferson St., Suite 201 Franklin Indiana 46131Dialysis Stations: 12 (317) 736-0465
  • Davita - Dialysis - Franklin19.11 miles away1140 W Jefferson Street, Suite A Franklin Indiana 46131Dialysis Stations: 14 (317) 736-4304
  • Fmc - Seymour19.26 miles away200 East Third Street Seymour Indiana 47274Dialysis Stations: 12 (812) 524-9885
  • Davita - Blue River Valley Renal Center19.37 miles away2309 S Miller Street Ste 100 Shelbyville Indiana 46176Dialysis Stations: 11 (317) 398-0486

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=155535