North Shore Health and Rehab Facility
1365 West 29th Street, Loveland CO 80538 · (970) 667-6111 · 82.83% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
North Shore Health and Rehab Facility is in Loveland, Colorado, a city with 82,751 people. We gave this nursing home an A overall grade, ranking it in the top 20 percent of all nursing homes in the United States. This is just about as good of a place as you're going to find. This facility also received impressive scores in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 134 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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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 an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our short-term care scores are critical for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. 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 statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients that were able to return home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Colorado in this area with 73.4 percent of its patients returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing rating assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This facility boasts a really impressive 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls resulting in major injury, this place performed as well as any facility the state. Preventing major falls is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are employed.
Long-term Care Quality
In the last category we looked at, this nursing home was awarded a very favorable grade of B+ in our long-term care category. With this score, the nursing home finished off a very favorable report card. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After looking at the significant amount of nursing care provided by this nursing home, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 97.01897 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.76 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
North Shore Health and Rehab Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents who were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint 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 datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better