Cloverlodge Care Center

With an address in Saint Edward, Nebraska, Cloverlodge Care Center is the only option we identified in the area. This nursing home turns out to be a well above average facility, with an overall grade of B+. Based on our assessment, you can do much worse than this place. The best aspect of this facility's strong profile was its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section

To pair with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was awarded high grades in the category of long-term care as well. As a result, it received one of our strongest scores in that category with a score of A-. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 95.833336 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. This facility was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. The nursing rating includes a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we like to look at quality-based statistics, such as the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to our last area, this nursing home was given a decent short-term care rating. Although this is not quite as impressive as several of its other category grades, this is really not a bad grade. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 34 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.