Omni Continuing Care

Although we did not rate this nursing home highly overall, we want to point out its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection ratings are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home's second best category was long-term care, but even there it received just a D in that area. This still happens to be a relatively poor grade. Nursing homes that don't score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this facility administered the vaccine to only 38.12709 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

Sadly, this nursing home's third highest score was short-term care. Nevertheless, with a D in this area, it still performed somewhat poorly. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

Switching gears to our fourth category, we gave this facility a D for our nursing category. This was the nursing home's worst category grade. Our nursing category consists of several subcategories, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. This nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its weak nursing hours. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than double the national average in this datapoint. This is concerning when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.