Odebolt Specialty Care

To pair with its strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for the area of inspections. Our inspection ratings are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

An additional quality feature for this facility is that it was given an above average long-term care score. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category grade. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. When calculating a facility's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses commit to patients and the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Our last category is short-term care, in which we awarded this nursing home a B- in that area. Short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. It doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.