Louisville Care Center

Louisville Care Center is a small government-owned nursing home in Louisville, Nebraska. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B. A score in this range requires solid scores in most areas. You can definitely do much worse than this nursing home. Fortunately, this facility didn't have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

To go along with its favorable overall score, we awarded this place a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings are not the end of the world.

Another one of this facility's quality category scores came in the category of long-term care. We gave them one of our more positive grades in that category, with a score of B+. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last datapoint we looked at was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 2.21 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. The nursing grade assesses many components, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a patient more often.

The next area we assessed was short-term care. This nursing home was given a C in this area. In our short-term care category, we strive to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 35.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.