Salem North Healthcare Center
250 Continental Drive, Salem OH 44460 · (330) 337-9503 · 81.39% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Salem North Healthcare Center is an average-sized facility located in Salem, Ohio. With an overall score of B, this facility is a quality option. This is one of the three best nursing homes in the city. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 86 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this place excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Not many facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was awarded a strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B+ in this area. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This place fared as well as just about any nursing home in the nation in this area with 64.2 percent of its residents returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, this nursing home also was awarded favorable long-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 79.7619 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a decent figure. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Despite having 2.19 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most facilities due to it having some more complicated patients.
Nurse Quality
The final area we analyzed was nursing, turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this facility a D in that area. This really is one of the couple of weak points of an otherwise impressive profile. Our nursing rating consists of quite a few data points, but the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home offered just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is well below average. Although this nursing home didn't excel in nursing hours, it surprised us in a few of the quality-based assessments in the nursing category, such as avoiding serious falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this datapoint, which is one redeeming quality we found in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Salem North Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better