North Central Care Center is located in Spokane, Washington, which is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the nation. With a bottom of the barrel overall grade of F, this facility isn't high on our list. Fortunately, this nursing home is one of 14 nursing homes in this city so if you aren't impressed, you should have better options. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, we will discuss nursing in the next paragraph.
North Central Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Note: North Central Care Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
Although this nursing home's overall score was terrible, it actually didn't perform as poorly in nursing. In fact, we gave it a B- for that area. The nursing score includes quite a few subcategories, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.
Short-term Care Quality
Remarkably, we gave this nursing home a B- for its short-term care score, which isn't a bad grade. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The final item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 4.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
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Facility Inspections
This facility received an F for its inspection rating. This is a particularly important category. Grades in this range often mean we found some red flags on the nursing home's inspection reports. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We recommend you scrutinize the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which are among the more serious categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by the government inspectors had the potential to pose actual harm to patients. On top of having severe deficiencies, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the final category, this nursing home really did not perform well here either. With a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility vaccinated 98.139534 percent of its residents, which is a very solid percentage. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
North Central Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In North Central Care Center, 7.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In North Central Care Center, 2.86% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric tells you the percent of long-term patients that have sustained a fall leading to severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In North Central Care Center, 2.28% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols can reduce the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In North Central Care Center, 13.8% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In North Central Care Center, 12.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In North Central Care Center, 13.74% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In North Central Care Center, 93.71% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In North Central Care Center, 13.94% Percentage of Patients
This is the percent of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In North Central Care Center, 21.78% Percentage of Residents
This metric tracks the percent of long-term stay residents that maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In North Central Care Center, 1 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In North Central Care Center, 21.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In North Central Care Center, 10.98 Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In North Central Care Center, 74.42% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some believe this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Spokane, WA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus
Looking for more options? Spokane, Washington has 13 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- PROV Sacred Hrt Med Ctr & Childs Hosp.Acute Care Hospitals 1.87 miles away101 West 8th Avenue Spokane Washington 99204Voluntary non-profit - Church(509) 474-3040
- Providence Holy Family HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.56 miles away5633 North Lidgerwood Spokane Washington 99208Voluntary non-profit - Private(509) 482-2450
- Multicare Valley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.61 miles away12606 East Mission Avenue Spokane Washington 99216Voluntary non-profit - Private(509) 924-6650
Nearby Dialysis
- Downtown Spokane Renal Center1.83 miles away601 West 5th Ave Ste 101 Spokane Washington 99204CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (509) 363-0070
- Fmc Spokane Kidney Center4.79 miles away610 S Sherman Ave Suite 101 Spokane Washington 99202CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (509) 473-1010
- Fmc Northpointe Dialysis Unit5.09 miles away1116 E Westview Court Spokane Washington 99218CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (509) 468-8606
- North Spokane Renal Center5.25 miles away7701 N Division Street Ste B Spokane Washington 99208CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (509) 465-3161
- Fmc Valley Dialysis Unit8.41 miles away1017 North Pines Rd Spokane Washington 99206CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (509) 891-1107
- Spokane Valley Renal Center8.62 miles away12610 E Mirabeau Pkwy Suite 100 Spokane Washington 99216CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 10 (509) 228-9933