Emerald Nursing and Rehab Mercy

    7410 Mercy Rd, Omaha, NE, 68124
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    1.0

    Neglect, unsafe care, filthy facility

    I had a terrifying experience here. My loved one suffered repeated neglect - late/missed meds, missed showers, left in soiled diapers, broken call button, nurses distracted on phones - and was rushed to the ER in respiratory arrest after staff failed to act. Staff were often unresponsive, blunt or mocking, administration evasive, and the facility was dirty with pests and terrible food; understaffing and high turnover made care inconsistent. A few rehab/therapy staff and security were kind and competent, but they were the exception. I feel this place is unsafe and negligent - do not send your loved ones here.

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    3.47 · 117 reviews

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
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    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.6
    • Staff

      3.0
    • Meals

      1.3
    • Amenities

      2.0
    • Value

      1.3

    Pros

    • Strong rehabilitation/therapy outcomes
    • Dedicated and effective therapy staff (named individuals praised)
    • Some compassionate, professional and courteous nursing staff
    • Successful recoveries and residents returning home
    • Engaged security/front desk and welcoming check-in
    • Clean and odorless facility reported by some families
    • Meaningful activities (art, reading, sewing, bingo, music, walking)
    • Timely call-light response reported in some cases
    • Alternating pressure mattresses and large beds available
    • Owners/management involvement cited positively by some families
    • Occasional continuity of care and outstanding nursing teams
    • Staff who show empathy beyond care (attending funerals, staying engaged)

    Cons

    • Medication errors and frequent delays (including insulin)
    • Poor nursing responsiveness and unanswered nursing calls
    • Serious neglect reports (bed sores, residents left in soiled diapers)
    • High staff turnover and reliance on agency/temporary staff
    • Understaffing of nurses and aides, especially evenings
    • Poor communication with families and withholding information
    • Dishonest or inept social work/administration (misleading families/insurer)
    • Mishandled discharges and unexpected out-of-pocket charges
    • Food problems: cold, spoiled, insufficient, no menus, kitchen shortages
    • Facility cleanliness and pest problems (flies, cockroaches, bed bugs)
    • Broken or missing equipment (call buttons, in-room phones, showers)
    • Inadequate infection control and COVID management
    • Delayed hospital transfers and life-threatening care lapses
    • Refusal of needed medical equipment (wheelchairs, oxygen support)
    • Overmedication/medication records incomplete or inaccurate
    • Unsafe environment reports (patients naked, stifling heat, drunk staff)
    • Supply shortages and poor laundering practices
    • Billing disputes, staff theft, and distrust of administration
    • Reports of mocking, rude, or unprofessional staff behavior
    • Questionable licensing/management integrity raised by reviewers

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across the reviews is highly mixed and polarized, with a clear pattern: rehabilitation and therapy services are frequently praised and can produce strong, measurable outcomes, while core nursing care, administration, and facility operations show repeated, serious concerns. Many reviewers highlight outstanding therapy teams and individual caregivers who helped residents recover, walk again, and return home. Specific therapy staff were named and thanked, and families credited rehabilitation with substantial improvements in mobility and function. Activities programming and some elements of front-desk/security operations also receive positive mentions, creating a sense that parts of the facility can be energetic, welcoming, and supportive.

    However, these positives are repeatedly overshadowed by a large volume of reports describing unsafe and neglectful care. Numerous reviewers report medication errors and delays, including missed insulin doses and late pain medication, which in multiple accounts led to significant medical deterioration and hospital transfers, sometimes to ICU. There are multiple specific allegations of life-threatening lapses: delayed response to respiratory distress, infection and bed sore progression because wounds were not cleaned, and residents left in feces or soiled diapers for extended periods. Call buttons were described as broken or missing, in-room phones absent, and staff sometimes distracted (on personal phones) or allegedly intoxicated, creating an unsafe environment in several accounts.

    Staffing and continuity of care are recurring themes. Reviewers frequently cite high turnover, understaffing, and heavy use of agency staff, leading to inconsistent care. Morning and overnight shifts are sometimes described as competent, but evenings and weekends are commonly reported as poorly staffed or inattentive. This inconsistent staffing pattern is linked to many of the problems noted: medication delays, inadequate showering/hygiene, missed vitals and physician visits, and poor infection-control practices. While many individual staff members are praised as compassionate and professional, administration and social work draw strong criticism for poor communication, dishonesty, withholding discharge or hospice information, and mishandling transitions of care. Several reviews specifically warn that social workers or administrators misled families about discharges, payments, or facility conditions.

    Facility condition and operations show wide variability in reviewer experience. Some families describe a clean, odorless building with friendly staff and effective security procedures, while many others report an old, dilapidated environment with pest sightings (flies, cockroaches, occasional bed bug reports), unsanitary laundry practices, and broken essential amenities (nonfunctional showers, uncontrolled heating, loud oxygen generators). Dining is another significant problem area—reports of cold, spoiled, or insufficient food, no posted menus, and kitchen staff shortages appear frequently and contribute to the perception of neglect and inadequate daily living support.

    Infection control and COVID-related practices are inconsistent. Multiple reviewers describe poor PPE use, inappropriate transfers from COVID-negative to positive units, long quarantine periods with limited communication, and a lack of routine family updates. These concerns compound the sense of unsafe care when combined with medication errors and delayed responses to medical emergencies.

    A notable pattern is the polarized and sometimes contradictory nature of the reviews. Several families report recent improvements (for example, positive changes over the last seven months), and some reviews urge trust in certain teams and recommend the facility. Others give strenuous warnings—using words like "terrible," "torturous," and "criminal"—strongly advising against placing loved ones at the facility. This polarity suggests that patient experience may depend heavily on timing, unit, specific staff on duty, and whether an individual receives rehabilitation-focused versus long-term nursing care.

    Practical takeaways: if families are considering this facility, they should verify in advance: current staffing ratios for the unit and shifts, medication administration processes (especially for insulin and PRN pain meds), infection-control policies, emergency-transfer protocols, and how discharges and billing will be handled. Ask for names of primary caregivers, confirm presence and function of call buttons and in-room phones, inspect cleanliness and pest-control measures, and get written clarity on how social work and administration will communicate updates. The facility demonstrably has strengths in therapy and individual compassionate caregivers, but repeated reports of medication errors, neglect, unsafe conditions, poor administration, and inconsistent infection control represent significant risks. Families should weigh the strong rehabilitation outcomes reported by some against the documented safety and quality-of-care concerns and consider monitoring closely or looking for alternatives if continuity and nursing reliability are essential.

    Location

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    About Emerald Nursing and Rehab Mercy

    Emerald Nursing and Rehab Mercy sits at 7410 Mercy Rd in Omaha and offers care for people who need skilled nursing or help recovering after a stay in the hospital, and you'll notice right away they focus on making things a little easier for those who need constant medical support, with 174 certified beds and an average of 101 residents most days, and though the place is owned by River City O with a handful of other indirect owners like Jw River City Llc and Yc River City Llc, and managed by Emerald Healthcare Llc along with Evolve Therapy Services and some others, the presence of longtime staff-some with several decades of experience-means you'll see familiar faces if you visit often enough, folks like Amy Fish, David Fleischmann, and a few more who manage day-to-day, and even though nurse turnover remains high at 79.1%, quite a bit higher than the state's average, and the nurse hours per resident per day come in a bit below average at 3.44, there's a clear commitment to round-the-clock care with a physician in the building all week and on-call for weekends, and the care teams, including physical, occupational, and speech therapists, get together with families to set up individual care plans, plus social services and dietary help all get involved, and the folks here offer different levels of nursing and therapy and even home-grown therapy with the same department leading the programs daily, while amenities like big private rooms and patio areas for fresh air, plus personalized dining with gourmet menus, help to support comfort and recovery, but you do have to know, their last inspection in March 2025 turned up some deficiencies, with 50 total, including three related to infection control, one of which pointed out failures in infection prevention that could've caused more than minimal harm, and there were also problems storing, preparing, and serving food correctly; at the moment, they're not taking new residents, and the services, amenities, and providers can change day to day, but the staff speaks English, they offer services tied to skilled nursing and rehabilitation, and their information gets updated in the online directory about once a month, so while there's no perfect facility, and certainly this one has had its share of inspection findings, it stays focused on serving the greater Mercy Region for those who need ongoing care or support for getting back on their feet.

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