Life Care Center of Elkhorn is a senior living facility in Elkhorn, Nebraska. This city has a total of 16,422 people. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Elkhorn. The city has just one other nursing home. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category is inspections, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Life Care Center of Elkhorn
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a C for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This place was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates this facility avoided the more serious classes of deficiencies. Lastly, we do need to point out that this facility has been assessed some government fines recently. Fortunately these fines were not on the high end as government fines go. That said, this still isn't what we want to find.
Nurse Quality
This facility's second best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Our nursing grade is largely based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility averaged only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
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Short-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this nursing home's third best score was short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this area, it still fared relatively poorly. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is often a meaningful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. With its weak score in this area, we were not shocked to discover this facility offers substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.7 percent of its residents returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we analyzed is long-term care. This facility received a very poor grade of F in this category. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this facility gave the vaccine to only 64.79401 percent of its patients, which is somewhat concerning. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of Elkhorn Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 5.27% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 4.96% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls are often caused by poor nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 3.66% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 18.62% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 19.92% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are typically given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 4.32% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are showing symptoms of depression. Some experts believe this is a measure of quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 93.19% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 14.85% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate decline of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 18.85% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Some argue that mobility is vital to residents' physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 1.37 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 18.85 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 9.35 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Life Care Center of Elkhorn, 77.76% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
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- Children's Hospital & Medical CenterChildrens 10.12 miles away8200 Dodge St Omaha Nebraska 68114Voluntary non-profit - Private(402) 955-5400
- Chi Health ImmanuelAcute Care Hospitals 11.04 miles away6901 North 72nd St Omaha Nebraska 68122Voluntary non-profit - Private(402) 572-2121
- Chi Health Creighton University Medical Center - BAcute Care Hospitals 11.12 miles away7500 Mercy Rd Omaha Nebraska 68124Voluntary non-profit - Private(402) 398-6060
- Chi Health MidlandsAcute Care Hospitals 14.37 miles away11111 South 84th St Papillion Nebraska 68046Voluntary non-profit - Church(402) 593-3000
- Methodist Fremont HealthAcute Care Hospitals 17.56 miles away450 East 23rd St Fremont Nebraska 68025Voluntary non-profit - Private(402) 721-1610
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