Advanced Rehabilitation and Healthcare of Bowie

We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall score in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in this category with an A. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should 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 had favorable view of this nursing home's recent inspections.

We also awarded this nursing home an impressive score in long-term care. This nursing home earned a B in this area, which happens to be one of our more impressive scores. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is often a deadly illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave its residents vulnerable. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Unfortunately, this facility's next best score was short-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this category, it still performed relatively badly. In forming our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Not surprisingly, we learned that this nursing home provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical nursing home. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.8 percent of its residents returning home.

This nursing home's worst area was nursing, which is the last category we scored. It received a lowly F in this category. Despite several acceptable scores in other areas, this score is still alarming so we would like to to draw your attention to it. The nursing rating weighs quite a few components, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its below average total nursing hours per patient, this nursing home had really poor marks in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percentage of residents experiencing falls which led to serious injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that so many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing rating.