Mid-Nebraska Lutheran Home

This nursing home's nursing score is notably more impressive than its overall score. Due to a strong performance in this area, it received one of our better scores in that category with a B+. The nursing grade is based on many factors, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a grade of B in our short-term care category. This is one of our better scores. In determining these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Looking to our inspection category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our inspection grades are based on the facility's health inspection reports. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This facility had 2 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent danger to resident health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

The last area we analyzed is long-term care, which is this facility's weakest category. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is clearly very concerning. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated 88.18898 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be several points below the national average. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.