Litzenberg Memorial County Hospital

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 95.4955 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.12 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much better hospitalization rate than most nursing homes.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A. The nursing grade includes quite a few components, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This particular facility provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This was one of the better figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of offering high levels of care, this place also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. With below 5 percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared as well as any facility Nebraska in this category.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our final area, this facility also was given an impressive short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. This wrapped up a very impressive report card. In forming these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The purpose is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. One of this facility's strengths is that it provides more than seven hours of care per week from registered nurses per resident. This is the gold standard for this area, as it's about 1.5 times higher than the average facility's level of registered nurse staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.