Omaha Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but it really excelled in the area of nursing care, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our nursing rating is based on quite a few datapoints, but the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded a great short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it one of our best grades in this area with a score of A-. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The purpose is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The next category we looked at is long-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B- in this category. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We discovered that this facility gave the vaccine to just 85.34032 percent of its residents, which is slightly concerning. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning the last category of inspections, we gave this facility a grade of just D for our inspection category. This proved to be its worst category grade, particularly in light of some of the more impressive grades referenced above. Nevertheless, since this data is compiled by an independent government inspector, we weight it heavily in our overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received significant government fines totaling more than $100,000. This usually means that a poor performance has been an issue for more than one year.