Callaway Good Life Center

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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Callaway Good Life Center's website

PO Box 250, 600 West Kimball Street,
Callaway NE 68825

(308) 836-2267

80.85% estimated occupancy ¹

Callaway Good Life Center is a small non-profit facility located in Callaway, Nebraska. With an A overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the nation. Based on all of the relevant data, you can't go wrong with this nursing home. This facility was also given impressive ratings in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Podiatry
Mental Health
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Optometry
Audiology

Awards

Top Nursing Home in Nebraska Awards 2020

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2021)

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Facility Inspections

On top of receiving an elite overall rating, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score. This grade is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the best complements we can offer a nursing home. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning patients even once per day.

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Long-term Care Quality

Moving on our next category, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for its long-term care grade. This is a first-rate score. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home also performed well in our short-term care category. In fact, we gave it a B+ for that area. This rounded out a very impressive report card. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more important for residents in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Callaway Good Life Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Callaway Good Life Center, 5.27% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Callaway Good Life Center, 4.96% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing care can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Callaway Good Life Center, 3.66% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. We want to point out that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Callaway Good Life Center, 18.62% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents suffering from cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Callaway Good Life Center, 19.92% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically used to treat patients suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Callaway Good Life Center, 4.32% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. High levels of depression could indicate a lower level of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Callaway Good Life Center, 93.19% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Callaway Good Life Center, 14.85% Percentage of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Callaway Good Life Center, 18.85% Percentage of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' mental and physical well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Callaway Good Life Center, 1.37 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Callaway Good Life Center, 18.85 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

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

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Callaway Good Life Center, 9.35 Percentage of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Callaway Good Life Center, 77.76% Percentage of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

Jennie M Melham Memorial Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 17.55 miles away145 Memorial Drive Broken Bow Nebraska 68822Voluntary non-profit - Private(308) 872-4100