With an address in Elkhorn, Nebraska, Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center is one of only two available facilities in the city. This facility is one of the most impressive nursing homes we looked at. A score in this range requires superb scores across the board. In fact, this nursing home has the distinction of being one of the 25 best nursing homes in Nebraska. As you will see below, this facility performed just as well in our category scores. We gave it a straight A report card!
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Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non 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
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Aquatic Therapy
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Facility Inspections
On top of faring well overall, this nursing home received nearly flawless government inspections. Therefore, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
An additional reason we rated this facility so highly is that it was awarded an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as elite as it gets in this category. Short-term care grades are often employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 6.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also want to alert you to the fact that this nursing home was given a strong score of A in our long-term care category. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 99.72452 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
The last category we looked at is nursing, where this nursing home was given a grade of A-. This finished off a very strong profile. Not many facilities earned an A- or better in every category. Nursing ratings are tied to nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 8.6% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic measures the percent of long-term care residents who are suffering from pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 6.34% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term patients which had falls which resulted in serious injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 4.4% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Better hygiene protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 16.53% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 12.38% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 3.72% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 99.61% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 6.81% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 9.15% of Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to preserving the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 9.15% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 5.53% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Brookestone Meadows Rehabilitation and Care Center, 83.83% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Chi Health LakesideAcute Care Hospitals 2.86 miles away16901 Lakeside Hills Ct Omaha Nebraska 68130Voluntary non-profit - Church(402) 717-8167
- Orthonebraska HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.24 miles away2808 South 143rd Plz Omaha Nebraska 68144Physician(402) 609-1600
- Methodist HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.92 miles away8303 Dodge St Omaha Nebraska 68114Voluntary non-profit - Private(402) 354-4000
- Children's Hospital & Medical CenterChildrens 9.96 miles away8200 Dodge St Omaha Nebraska 68114Voluntary non-profit - Private(402) 955-5400
- Chi Health Creighton University Medical Center - BAcute Care Hospitals 10.63 miles away7500 Mercy Rd Omaha Nebraska 68124Voluntary non-profit - Private(402) 398-6060
- Chi Health ImmanuelAcute Care Hospitals 11.84 miles away6901 North 72nd St Omaha Nebraska 68122Voluntary non-profit - Private(402) 572-2121
- Chi Health MidlandsAcute Care Hospitals 12.7 miles away11111 South 84th St Papillion Nebraska 68046Voluntary non-profit - Church(402) 593-3000
- Bellevue Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 16.93 miles away2500 Bellevue Medical Center Dr Bellevue Nebraska 68123Proprietary(402) 763-3600
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