North Winds Living Center is a small nursing home located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Featuring an overall rating of A, this nursing home graded out better than many of the facilities in Oklahoma City by a significant margin. You simply can not do any better than this place. If you scroll down, you can see this facility's category grades, which are also quite good.
North Winds Living Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
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Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Inspection scores are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. In calculating our nursing ratings, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning a patient even once per day.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded a first-rate score of A in our long-term care category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 94.366196 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Short-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed was short-term care, where this facility received a grade of B. Even though this ended up being its least impressive category rating, this is still a quality score. Our short-term care scores are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
North Winds Living Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Serious Falls
In North Winds Living Center, 4.39% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a fall which resulted in serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In North Winds Living Center, 3.49% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to inadequate hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In North Winds Living Center, 14.15% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat several medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In North Winds Living Center, 24.47% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients which are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In North Winds Living Center, 3.91% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. Higher rates of depression could reveal a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In North Winds Living Center, 92.49% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In North Winds Living Center, 14.12% Percentage of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In North Winds Living Center, 14.93% Percentage of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who retained mobility levels.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In North Winds Living Center, 14.93 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Scores for Oklahoma City, OK
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Hospitals
- Integris Baptist Medical Center, IncAcute Care Hospitals 1.55 miles away3300 Northwest Expressway Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73112Voluntary non-profit - Private(405) 951-8110
- Northwest Surgical HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.93 miles away9204 North May Avenue Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73120Physician(405) 848-1918
- Ssm Health St Anthony Hospital - Oklahoma CityAcute Care Hospitals 3.95 miles away1000 North Lee Avenue Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73101Voluntary non-profit - Church(405) 272-7000
- O U MedicineAcute Care Hospitals 4.99 miles away700 Ne 13th Street Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73104Voluntary non-profit - Private(405) 271-5911
- Lakeside Women's Hospital, a Member of Integris HeAcute Care Hospitals 5.16 miles away11200 North Portland Avenue Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73120Physician(405) 936-1500
- Integris Community Hospital - Council CrossingAcute Care Hospitals 5.66 miles away9417 N Council Road Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73162Proprietary(405) 550-3280
- Mcbride Orthopedic HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.69 miles away9600 North Broadway Extension Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73114Physician(405) 486-2100
- Integris Southwest Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.64 miles away4401 South Western Avenue Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73109Voluntary non-profit - Private(405) 636-7000
Nearby Dialysis
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- Davita Lake Hefner Dialysis2.46 miles away6917 N May Ave Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73116Dialysis Stations: 16 (405) 810-9533
- Fkc-Lake Hefner Dialysis3.02 miles away7201 Cherokee Plaza Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73132CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (405) 728-1739
- Davita - Northwest Bethany3.55 miles away7800 Nw 23rd Ste A Bethany Oklahoma 73008Dialysis Stations: 16 (405) 495-8606
- Fmcna - Se Oklahoma3.83 miles away810 Nw 10th Ste B Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73106Dialysis Stations: 17 (405) 272-1553
- Fmcna - North Central Oklahoma City4.38 miles away200 Ne 50th St Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73105CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (405) 557-0025
- Ou Children Dialysis4.92 miles awayOu Children's Dialysis Unit 1200 Everett Dr Ste 1-J Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73104Dialysis Stations: 6 (405) 271-3302
- Davita - Heartland Dialysis5.43 miles away925 Ne Eighth Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73104CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (405) 236-3043