Prestige Care Center of Nebraska City

Neither this facility's overall grade nor its category grades gave us much to write home about. Its best category was inspections, but even there we gave it a D. This is a very poor grade. One of the most critical factors in evaluating inspection reports is deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we need to point out that this nursing home received significant government fines in recent years amounting to over $100,000. This usually signifies that a nursing home's poor performance spanned more than one year.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its short-term care score. Short-term care grades are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. With a grade this poor for this area, we were not stunned to discover this facility was below average in multiple staffing areas we focus on. It provided significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Nursing grades are based largely on quantity of nursing care available. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we graded was long-term care. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is an abysmal grade. Nursing homes that do not score well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 60.526318 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is quite a bit below what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.