Old Mill Rehabilitation (Omaha Tcu)

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively insignificant. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

We also would like to note the fact that this nursing home was given a strong score of A in our short-term care area. In computing these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. This facility is significantly above average in terms of its quantity of both registered nurse and physical therapy hours available to its patients. The facility supplied about 1.5 times as much care per resident from both of these care providers than the average facility provided. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country in this area with 60 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. When calculating a facility's nursing score, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to offering high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any nursing home in the nation when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these statistics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a solid score in that category, with a grade of B-. Even though this wasn't as dominant as many of this facility's other grades, it is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Lastly, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.