Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center
3550 Central Ave, Columbus IN 47203 · (812) 379-9669 · 76.12% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized government-owned nursing home located in Columbus, Indiana. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a very poor nursing home. This nursing home is just about as bad as it gets. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 80 Beds
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Government - County
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this facility a horrible overall score, we gave it an A for our inspections score. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with a list of deficiencies flagged. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Among this facility's litany of poor scores was its F in the area of short-term care. Short-term care grades are typically employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than a typical nursing home. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 41.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this nursing home's short-term care grade.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. When determining our nursing ratings, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This place averaged a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is an alarmingly low total. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor scores in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. These metrics helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our fourth category, this facility really did not perform very well here either. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 91.452995 percent of its residents, which is a bit less than we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this place was not as bad as we expected at keeping its patients out of the hospital. While it had 2.13 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic wasn't bad since it had some more complicated patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Willow Crossing Health & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often caused by lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care minimizes the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. However, this metric could be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These medications are sometimes used for several medical conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is an indication of the percent of long-term patients that are prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are generally prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percentage of residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the erosion of a resident's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents that maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better