Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center is a senior living facility located in Fremont, Nebraska, a city with a total of 30,376 people. We awarded this facility an A overall grade, ranking it in the top 20 percent of all facilities in the country. This is just about as good of a nursing home as you're going to find. If you look below, you can see this place's category scores, which are also strong.
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Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Aquatic Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home earned near flawless health inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this area. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Short-term Care Quality
Contributing to its first-rate profile, this facility also was awarded a strong short-term care score, with a grade of A. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is generally a reliable assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we assessed is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of B+. This completed a very strong profile. Very few facilities earned a B+ or higher in every single category. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 67.55556 percent of its patients. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 3.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 6.22% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who have had a fall resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 5.16% of Patients had UTIs
This metric tells you the percent of long-term residents that suffered from a UTI. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 14.09% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 19.55% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. Increased rates of depression could indicate a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 82.1% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 8.94% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 8.93% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who retained mobility levels. Some experts believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 8.93% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 12.41% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Nye Legacy Health & Rehabilitation Center, 76.91% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Methodist Fremont HealthAcute Care Hospitals 0.55 miles away450 East 23rd St Fremont Nebraska 68025Voluntary non-profit - Private(402) 721-1610
- Memorial Community Hospital Mch & Health SystemCritical Access Hospitals 18.91 miles away810 North 22nd St Blair Nebraska 68008Voluntary non-profit - Private(402) 426-1502
- Saunders Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 19.98 miles away1760 County Rd J Wahoo Nebraska 68066Government - Local(402) 443-4191
Nearby Dialysis
- Dodge County Dialysis1.03 miles away1949 E 23rd Avenue South Fremont Nebraska 68025Dialysis Stations: 12 (402) 721-7005