Omaha Metro Care and Rehabilitation Center
5505 Grover Street, Omaha NE 68106 · (402) 558-0225 · 44.12% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Omaha Metro Care and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home located in Omaha, Nebraska which has 518,429 people. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of D. A score in this range generally indicates a few red flags. Fortunately, this nursing home is one of 22 nursing homes in this city so if you aren't impressed, you should have better options. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 155 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to draw your attention to its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an C. Our nursing score includes numerous datapoints. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. This place performed admirably in this metric. Avoiding major falls is typically an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls can be prevented if a nursing home offers enough nurses to assist its patients.
Short-term Care Quality
As it turns out, this nursing home only received a D for its short-term care rating, which is not one of our better scores. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is often a useful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. With its abysmal score in this area, we were not shocked to learn that this facility provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 41.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home was given a rock bottom grade of F in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category likely don't provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities offer. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were somewhat surprised to discover that this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 85.333336 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. Although it had 2.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric wasn't as bad due to it having some more complex patients. This was its best feature in this category
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Omaha Metro Care and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are routinely associated with poor nursing care. Closer supervision limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely associated with poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric could also be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who were given antianxiety medication. These medications are generally used to treat patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients showing depressive symptoms. Some experts believe this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who were able to retain mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's typically correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better