Old Mill Rehabilitation (Omaha Tcu)

Old Mill Rehabilitation (Omaha Tcu) is a small nursing home located in Omaha, Nebraska. With an overall rating of B+, this facility should work for most prospective residents. Based on our ratings, you can do much worse than this place. The best part of this nursing home's strong profile is its short-term care rating. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. This place is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it supplied about 1.5 times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical nursing home. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Nebraska in this area with 64.6 percent of its patients returning home.

In addition, this facility earned excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of A. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. There are a number of factors included in this area. Many of these factors are tied to nurse staffing. This facility provides an incredible 4.8 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to offering high levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any nursing home in the country when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final category we assessed is long-term care, which proved to be this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a D in that category. Nevertheless, you should not assess this nursing home based only on one weak area, as it earned a few very strong scores in other areas. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.