Hirest Care Center

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Our nursing grade assesses many datapoints, but the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 place Nebraska in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning a resident at least once a day.

We also wanted to emphasize this nursing home's nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of B+ in this area. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

The third area we looked at is short-term care. This facility was awarded a very positive short-term care grade, with a grade of B+ in this area. Our short-term care ratings are important for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This nursing home's weakest category is long-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. For this category, we awarded this facility a grade of D. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 98.73418 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.