Papillion Manor

On top of being an elite facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Very few facilities performed this well in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. Contributing to its strong profile, this nursing home also performed well in that category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of of A for that area. For prospective patients seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 91.003456 percent of its patients, which is slightly below what we anticipated. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In the final category we scored, this nursing home received a very strong grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this grade, the facility topped off a straight A report card. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is typically a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.