North Ridge Village Nursing & Rehabilitation Cente
600 Trail Ridge Rd, Albion IN 46701 · (260) 636-1000 · 51.55% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
North Ridge Village Nursing & Rehabilitation Cente is an average-sized nursing home located in Albion, Indiana. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. This nursing home is really as bad as it gets. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, we will discuss nursing in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 77 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
On top of receiving a terrible overall score, we also gave this nursing home poor grades across the board in the various categories. It received a D for its nursing score, which was its best grade. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This particular place provided 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is below average. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home was above average in two of the major datapoints we focus on, with solid marks for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These metrics are usually reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care available.
Long-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, this nursing home's next best category is long-term care. As it turns out, with a D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to only 41.01124 percent of its patients. We were also disappointed with the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 3.09 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is nearly double the national average.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received a grade of just D in the area of inspections. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. We would scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility was assessed 11 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we also need to point out that this facility was assessed large government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This usually suggests that a nursing home's poor track record spanned more than one year.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we assessed is short-term care. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in that category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a grade this poor in this category, we were not stunned to learn this place was below average in several staffing metrics we focus on. The nursing home provided significantly fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 38.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
North Ridge Village Nursing & Rehabilitation Cente Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term care residents who developed pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of long-term care patients who were administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients given antianxiety medications. These medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some would argue that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better