Osage Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

This facility excelled in our short-term care rating, with an impressive grade of A- in this category. Short-term care ratings are important for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a wide range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility's inspection grade also was better than its overall grade. Due to a quality inspection report this year, it received one of our better grades in that category with a B. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in 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 grades in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home's third most favorable category was long-term care. We awarded it a B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the pack score in this category. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 97.1831 percent of its residents. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next category we assessed is nursing. This nursing home received a grade of C for this area. We assessed the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This facility provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below average. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused metrics. We especially look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. These data points are indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.