Gold Crest Retirement Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing turned out to be its best category. In this category, we awarded this nursing home an A. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with residents, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this nursing home 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 many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving residents more frequently.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our higher scores in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most critical for people needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next category we scored was long-term care, where this facility received a grade of B. This actually was this nursing home's least impressive category. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when it's poorest grade still beats out most other facilities. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home 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 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.