North Ridge Health and Rehab is a very-large nursing home located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With an overall score of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective patients. Based on all of the relevant data, you can do much worse than this facility. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its short-term care score, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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North Ridge Health and Rehab
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Short-term Care Quality
One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it received a very impressive short-term care grade. Short-term care is its best category. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are seeing residents as well as the level of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning a resident more often.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a middle of the road grade in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Long-term care ratings are crucial for patients requiring personal care. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.04 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
Finally, we also gave this facility a B- for our inspections category. This facility didn't have any glaring weaknesses. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively minor. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
North Ridge Health and Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 5.76% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 0.72% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 1.34% of Patients had UTIs
This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents that have experienced a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indicator of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be skewed for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 10.06% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 11.86% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are typically used to treat patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 7.5% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients demonstrating signs of depression. Some would argue this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 99.76% of Patients
Measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 17.39% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and continence.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 14.71% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who were able to retain mobility. Some believe that mobility is critical to patients health.
Hospitalizations
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 0.04 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 14.71% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 6.86% of Patients
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In North Ridge Health and Rehab, 81.78% of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living typically correlates with better rehabilitation services.
Scores for Minneapolis, MN
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Dialysis
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