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North Platte Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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North Platte Care Center's website

2900 West E Street,
North Platte NE 69101

(308) 534-2200

90.56% estimated occupancy ¹

North Platte Care Center is located in North Platte, Nebraska. This is a respectable facility, with an overall grade of B-. You can definitely do worse than this nursing home. We were also pleased to discover that this place was consistent in each of our categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company
Offers Hospice
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Home Making
Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Tracheotomy Care
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Colostomy Care
Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

This nursing home earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Short-term Care Quality

In addition, we also would like to note that this nursing home was awarded favorable short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more impressive grades in this area, with a B. This turned out to be the facility's second strongest score. Our short-term care grade is generally used to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. It does not appear that this facility submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

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Nurse Quality

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. When determining our nursing grades, we analyze both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This facility averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is not an impressive total. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Long-term Care Quality

Our next area is long-term care, where we gave this facility a grade of C in this category. In computing our long-term care scores, we assess the facility's personal care services. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 89.03509 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

North Platte Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In North Platte Care Center, 10.67% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In North Platte Care Center, 3.95% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term patients that experienced a fall resulting in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In North Platte Care Center, 1.9% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to poorer hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In North Platte Care Center, 20.45% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are used to treat several conditions, such as cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In North Platte Care Center, 13.45% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of long-term patients which were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In North Platte Care Center, 0.48% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents exhibiting signs of depression. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In North Platte Care Center, 94.52% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In North Platte Care Center, 17.94% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In North Platte Care Center, 19.84% of Residents

This is the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In North Platte Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In North Platte Care Center, 19.84% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In North Platte Care Center, 12.36% of Patients

This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In North Platte Care Center, 84.22% of Resident

Measures the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue that this is a measure of rehabilitation services.