MERRIMAN HOUSE (NORTH CONWAY, NH) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	1.070
State:	0.891

Number of Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.330
State:	0.622

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	1.400
State:	1.503

Process of Care

Heart Attack

Percent of Patients Given Aspirin at Arrival

Here:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	99.9%

Heart Failure

Percent of patients who were given an evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

This Nursing Home:	96.0%
New Hampshire:	99.4%

Percent of Patients Given ACE Inhibitor or ARB for Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction (LVSD)

Here:	94.0%
State:	96.1%

Percent of Patients Given Discharge Instructions

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	94.6%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	98.5%

Pneumonia

Percent of Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 6 Hours After Arrival

This Nursing Home:	98.0%
New Hampshire:	97.2%

Percent of Patients Whose Initial ER Blood Culture Was Performed Prior To Administration Of First Dose Of Antibiotics

Here:	97.0%
State:	97.2%

Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice/Counseling

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	98.7%

Percent of Patients Given the Most Appropriate Initial Antibiotic(s)

Here:	96.0%
New Hampshire:	96.3%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Influenza Vaccination

Here:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	94.9%

Percent of Patients Assessed and Given Pneumococcal Vaccination

This Nursing Home:	92.0%
State:	96.8%

Surgery

Percent of Surgery Patients given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour before surgery) to help prevent infection

Here:	95.0%
New Hampshire:	98.7%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (within 24 hours after surgery)

Here:	95.0%
New Hampshire:	97.4%

Percent of Surgery Patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection

Here:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	98.7%

Percent of Surgery Patients who got treatment at right time (within 24 hours before or after surgery) to help prevent blood clot

Here:	97.0%
State:	97.8%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries

Here:	97.0%
State:	98.4%

Percent of Surgery Patients needing hair removed from the surgical area before surgery who had hair removed using a safer method

This Nursing Home:	99.0%
State:	100.0%

Percent of Surgery Patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery

This Nursing Home:	94.0%
State:	93.8%

Surgery patients who were taking heart drugs called beta blockers before coming to the hospital, who were kept on them

Here:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	96.1%

Patients having surgery who were actively warmed in the operating room or whose body temperature was near normal

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
New Hampshire:	99.7%

Outcome of Care

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Attack

Here:	16.0%
New Hampshire:	14.7%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Heart Failure

Here:	13.8%
New Hampshire:	11.9%

30-Day Mortality Rates from Pneumonia

This Nursing Home:	13.9%
New Hampshire:	12.8%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Heart Failure

This Nursing Home:	24.9%
New Hampshire:	23.2%

30-Day Readmission Rates from Pneumonia

This Nursing Home:	16.7%
State:	17.7%

Complaint Deficiency

Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Exits that are accessible at all times
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Other fire safety features required by fire safety codes
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Properly installed hallway dispensers for alcohol-based hand rub
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Follow policies and procedures to convey the resident's personal funds to the appropriate party responsible after the resident's death
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Give or get quality lab services/tests in a timely manner to meet the needs of residents
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many

Quality Measures

Percent of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased

Here:	14.3%
New Hampshire:	16.9%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

This Nursing Home:	2.4%
State:	7.2%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

Here:	21.4%
New Hampshire:	6.1%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

This Nursing Home:	4.8%
New Hampshire:	7.8%

Percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury

This Nursing Home:	2.4%
State:	3.8%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

This Nursing Home:	97.6%
State:	97.3%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
State:	98.4%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

Here:	39.0%
New Hampshire:	25.1%

MERRIMAN HOUSE - NORTH CONWAY, NH