With an address in North Ridgeville, Ohio, Northridge Health Center is one of just a few facilities there. With an overall score of C, this appears to be a middle of the pack nursing home. This facility has a few things working in its favor. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's profile is its remarkable inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.
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Northridge Health Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Colostomy Care
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Facility Inspections
To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall rating. Inspection grades are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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. Based on this, we still had favorable view of this nursing home's inspections.
Short-term Care Quality
In addition, we also would like to note that this facility was given strong short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our more impressive scores in this area, with a B. This proved to be the facility's second highest score. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is generally a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a middle of the pack score in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
The next category we scored is nursing, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest category. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is certainly a major concern. The nursing score weighs several factors, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics hurt this facility's nursing grade significantly.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Northridge Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Northridge Health Center, 14.53% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Northridge Health Center, 3.4% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term care residents which had falls which caused major injury. We use this statistic in computing nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Northridge Health Center, 0.69% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Northridge Health Center, 10.89% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such drugs are not medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Northridge Health Center, 17.83% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Northridge Health Center, 26.64% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Northridge Health Center, 99.04% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Northridge Health Center, 2.93% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and eating. Some experts argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Northridge Health Center, 3.99% of Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who remained mobile levels.
Hospitalizations
In Northridge Health Center, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Northridge Health Center, 3.99% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Northridge Health Center, 7.14% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Northridge Health Center, 82.96% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Uh St John Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.15 miles away29000 Center Ridge Road Westlake Ohio 44145Voluntary non-profit - Private(440) 835-8000
- Southwest General Health CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.99 miles away18697 Bagley Road Cleveland Ohio 44130Voluntary non-profit - Private(440) 816-6701
- Fairview HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 10.38 miles away18101 Lorain Avenue Cleveland Ohio 44111Voluntary non-profit - Private(216) 476-7000
- Mercy Health-Lorain HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.29 miles away3700 Kolbe Road Lorain Ohio 44053Voluntary non-profit - Private(440) 960-4000
- Mercy Health-Allen HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 13.77 miles away200 West Lorain Street Oberlin Ohio 44074Voluntary non-profit - Private(440) 775-1211
- Metrohealth SystemAcute Care Hospitals 16.77 miles away2500 Metrohealth Drive Cleveland Ohio 44109Voluntary non-profit - Other(216) 778-7089
- Lutheran HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.79 miles away1730 West 25th Street Cleveland Ohio 44113Voluntary non-profit - Private(216) 696-4300
- St Vincent Charity Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.52 miles away2351 East 22nd Street Cleveland Ohio 44115Voluntary non-profit - Private(216) 861-6200
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Center Ridge Dialysis3.06 miles away38630 Center Ridge Road North Ridgeville Ohio 44039Dialysis Stations: 14 (440) 327-2070
- Fmc - Dialysis Specialists of Northeast Ohio3.14 miles away1070 Abbe Road North Elyria Ohio 44035Dialysis Stations: 21 (440) 365-8165
- Fmc - Heritage Dialysis4.77 miles away1160 East Broad St. Elyria Ohio 44035CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (440) 365-1811
- Fmc - Elyria Renal Care Group5.82 miles away5316 Hoag Drive H Mcdonald Dialysis Ctr Elyria Ohio 44035Dialysis Stations: 20 (440) 934-5700
- Fmc - Westlake Dialysis Center6.71 miles away26024 Detroit Road Westlake Ohio 44145Dialysis Stations: 23 (440) 835-1139
- Center for Dialysis Care Westside Home Care LLC6.89 miles away24651 Center Ridge Rd Suite 450 Westlake Ohio 44145Dialysis Stations: 10 (440) 899-2808
- Davita - Villa of Great Northern7.42 miles away22710 Fairview Center Dr., Ste 100 Cleveland Ohio 44126Dialysis Stations: 7 (440) 734-4630
- Center for Dialysis Care Middleburg Heights9.26 miles away6749 Eastland Road Cleveland Ohio 44130Dialysis Stations: 20 (440) 234-3916