Osborn Health and Rehabilitation

On top of faring well overall, this facility earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our highest grades in this area with an A. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't appear that we have deficiency data for this facility. We wish we had more information about this facility. Without having all of the deficiency data, it was challenging to really grade it in the inspections category.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. Our nursing grade consists of a handful of datapoints, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Building on its fine assessment, this nursing home also was given a strong short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. In calculating our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is frequently a solid assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In our final category, we gave this facility an A for its long-term care rating. This wrapped up a very strong profile. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.63503 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.