DOUGLAS COUNTY HEALTH CENTER (OMAHA, NE) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.850
State:	0.754

Number of Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.780
State:	0.781

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	1.630
Nebraska:	1.534

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.020
Nebraska:	0.061

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.020
State:	0.069

Complaint Deficiency

Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor and a family member of the resident of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide special eating equipment and utensils for each resident who needs them
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Proper stairway enclosures and vertical shafts
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Signs that state that exit doors are to be kept closed
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Gift shops separated and protected as hazardous areas
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Proper backup exit lighting
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly located and lighted Exit signs
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Portable fire extinguishers
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Restrictions on the use of portable space heaters
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Exits that are free from obstructions and can be used at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Restrictions on the use of highly flammable materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
A two-hour-resistant firewall in common walls
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Approved construction type or materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Fire-resistant interior walls
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Corridors that are separated from common areas by walls constructed to limit the passage of smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Proper stairway enclosures and vertical shafts
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Rooms that can be unlocked from inside without a key
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly located and lighted Exit signs
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
A fire alarm system that can be heard throughout the facility
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Portable fire extinguishers
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Posted No-smoking signs in areas where smoking is not permitted or did not provide ashtrays where smoking was allowed
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly protected cooking facilities
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Restrictions on the use of portable space heaters
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly constructed linen or trash chutes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly sized and located linen or trash receptacles
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Other fire safety features required by fire safety codes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
No-smoking signs where oxygen is used
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed hallway dispensers for alcohol-based hand rub
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly care for residents needing special services, including: injections, colostomy, ureostomy, ileostomy, tracheostomy care, tracheal suctioning, respiratory care, foot care, and prostheses
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Approved construction type or materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Fire-resistant interior walls
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Proper stairway enclosures and vertical shafts
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Proper backup exit lighting
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly maintained smoke detectors
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Portable fire extinguishers
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly constructed linen or trash chutes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Exits that are free from obstructions and can be used at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Restrictions on the use of highly flammable materials
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly sized and located linen or trash receptacles
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
No-smoking signs where oxygen is used
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed hallway dispensers for alcohol-based hand rub
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some

Quality Measures

Percent of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased

Here:	12.3%
State:	14.1%

Percent of long-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

This Nursing Home:	15.2%
Nebraska:	12.2%

Percent of long-stay high-risk residents with pressure ulcers

This Nursing Home:	6.4%
State:	4.2%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

Here:	5.2%
State:	6.9%

Percent of long-stay low-risk residents who lose control of their bowels or bladder

This Nursing Home:	35.0%
Nebraska:	41.6%

Percent of long-stay residents who have had a catheter inserted and left in their bladder

Here:	2.6%
State:	5.5%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

This Nursing Home:	7.4%
Nebraska:	7.3%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

Here:	12.5%
State:	8.0%

Percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury

This Nursing Home:	4.3%
Nebraska:	4.1%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	97.0%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	100.0%
Nebraska:	95.9%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	73.5%
State:	83.7%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

This Nursing Home:	37.1%
State:	22.6%

DOUGLAS COUNTY HEALTH CENTER - OMAHA, NE

Staff Information

Complaint Deficiency

Quality Measures

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