Hirest Millard

Hirest Millard is an average-sized nursing home located in Omaha, Nebraska. Featuring an overall score of A-, this is clearly a very good facility. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top third of all facilities in the country. This nursing home's impressive report card was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home is substantially above the national average in terms of its quantity of both physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. In fact, it provided about 50% more care per resident from both of these care providers than the average facility provided. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation with 72.8 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. The nursing grade consists of quite a few subcategories, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This was one of the highest totals we found. In addition, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home in Nebraska in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care provided.

In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A. Inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

The final category we assessed was long-term care, which is a weak link for this nursing home. We gave this nursing home a D for the area of long-term care, leaving this as the facility's worst category grade. We would nevertheless suggest that you consider all of a facility's category grades. Our long-term care grade is used to judge a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. After assessing nursing care provided by this nursing home, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. Based on its grade in this category, we were surprised to learn that this nursing home performed reasonably well both statistics. In fact, this facility vaccinated 95.2381 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which appears to be higher than many nursing homes. Surprisingly, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.