Odebolt Specialty Care

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received an A+ long-term care grade. Facilities that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. This place was also able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 1.75 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most nursing homes due to it having some more complicated patients.

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Arguably the most important factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care scores in our assessment. Indeed, we gave them one of our more favorable scores in that category, with a score of B. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. 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. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The final category we scored was this nursing home's weakest category. However, even in its weakest link we still gave it a respectable grade of B- in our nursing category. When computing a facility's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses commit to patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a relatively low total compared with most other nursing homes. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused metrics. We like to look at the percent of patients who suffered pressure ulcers and major falls. These metrics are measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these issues.