Old Mill Rehabilitation (Omaha Tcu)

We also wanted to point out the fact that this facility has earned excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this area. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Contributing to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care area. In fact, we gave it a score of A for that category. With our short-term care assessment, we strive to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. We scrutinized the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time the nurses spent with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we looked at is long-term care. We gave this facility one of our higher grades in this category, with a grade of B. Although this isn't as favorable as several of its other grades, it is nevertheless an excellent score. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.