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Blue Valley Lutheran Homes

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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P O Box 166, 220 Park Avenue,
Hebron NE 68370

(402) 768-3900

50.15% estimated occupancy 1

With an address in Hebron, Nebraska, Blue Valley Lutheran Homes is the sole option we were able to find in this area. This nursing home was given an A- overall, which is among the best scores that we offer. A score in this range requires superb marks across the board. Based on our assessment, you can not go wrong with this facility. This nursing home's strong profile was highlighted by its long-term care grade, which we will address in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Church related
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home earned an excellent long-term care grade. We gave it an impressive grade of A in that area. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. We awarded it an A for that category. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. We assessed the levels of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Nebraska in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

In the last category we rated, this facility was awarded a very favorable grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home topped off a very favorable report card. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is considered to be a meaningful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Blue Valley Lutheran Homes Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: C

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 9.88% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric is is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: F

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 8.66% of Patients had Serious Falls

This gauges the percentage of long-term patients who sustained falls resulting in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 2.36% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely linked to facilities with worst hygiene practices. More frequent bathing reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 30.56% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

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

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: F

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 36.36% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that were administered antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 3.28% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some would argue that this is a measure of patient quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 100% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 10.34% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and bathing.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 13.45% of Residents

This indicates the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is important to preserving the physical health of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 13.45% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Blue Valley Lutheran Homes, 67.91% of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.