Future Care Northpoint
1046 Old North Point Road, Baltimore MD 21224 · (410) 282-0100 · 95.54% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Future Care Northpoint is one of 28 nursing homes located in Baltimore, Maryland. This city has quite a few more facilities than most cities in Maryland. Featuring an overall grade of A, this facility is one of the most elite nursing homes we found. We could not find many bad things to say about this facility. Its grades are just impeccable. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its short-term care score, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 155 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received a strong short-term care score. In that area, we awarded this facility an A. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Maryland in this area with 62.9 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning the page to our next area, this facility was awarded first-rate long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a score of A- in this category. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.53694 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. While it had 2.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was close to the middle of the pack due to it having more complex patients.
Nurse Quality
In our final category, we gave this nursing home a A for our nursing score. This rounded out a first-rate report card. The nursing grade considers a variety of data points. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was above the national average. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls leading to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility in the country.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Future Care Northpoint Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that have had a fall resulting in severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the decline of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better