Odin Health Care Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

We also ended up giving this facility a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of C. In computing our nursing ratings, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Unfortunately, this facility's third best score was short-term care. However, with a D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services To have good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The last area we graded was long-term care, which ended up being a weak link for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of D for long-term care. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. After considering the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 93.57143 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.