Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center is located in Silver Spring, Maryland. The city has many available nursing homes. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B-. A grade in this range requires some respectable scores. In our view, this place would be a solid choice for quite a few people. The best part of this place's report card is is its short-term care score. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Short-term Care Quality
We wanted to point out that this nursing home' short-term care score outpaced its overall grade. We gave it a grade of B for its short-term care grade. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is often a solid measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility an B. Our nursing rating weighs many subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home received strong long-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our higher scores in this category, with a grade of B. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 96.231155 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Facility Inspections
In the final category of inspections, this ended up being this nursing home's worst grade. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave this nursing home a D in this category, which is not a very good grade. Since this data is collected by government inspectors, we typically take it pretty seriously. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. Generally, you should be most cautious when considering a facility that has severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This particular nursing home was hit with a category J or K deficiency, which rank among the worst deficiencies. These categories mean that the government inspectors uncovered a deficiency which puts resident health or safety in imminent danger. Finally, we also need to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently of more than $50,000. This typically suggests that CMS inspectors became frustrated after multiple years of bad government inspections.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 10.49% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure gauges the percent of long-term residents who have pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 3.52% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are often caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.78% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this statistic may also be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 25.58% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 8.35% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are given antianxiety medication. These medications are used to treat patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 1.67% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression could be a sign a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 97.16% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 23.45% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 17% of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 17% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 6.74% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center, 72.58% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many would argue this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Silver Spring, MD
- 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
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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- Medstar Montgomery Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 8.31 miles away18101 Prince Philip Drive Olney Maryland 20832Voluntary non-profit - Private(301) 774-8882
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Nearby Dialysis
- Renal Treatment Center - Wheaton0.93 miles awayWheaton Park Shopping Ctr 11941 Georgia Ave Silver Spring Maryland 20902CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (301) 949-9620
- Bma - Wheaton1.24 miles away10901b Georgia Avenue Silver Spring Maryland 20902Dialysis Stations: 14 (301) 933-1307
- Cadia Dialysis Springbrook1.98 miles away12325 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring Maryland 20904Dialysis Stations: 11 (301) 244-3028
- Holy Cross Hospital2.38 miles awayRenal Dialysis Unit 1500 Forest Glen Rd Silver Spring Maryland 20910Dialysis Stations: 14 (301) 754-7560
- Bedell Dialysis, LLC2.93 miles away13875 Outlet Drive Silver Spring Maryland 20904Dialysis Stations: 18 (301) 890-1504
- Fmc - Silver Spring2.93 miles away12120 Plum Orchard Rd Ste 140 Silver Spring Maryland 20904Dialysis Stations: 12 (301) 572-2484
- Davita - Silver Spring3.32 miles away8040 Georgia Ave Ste 150 Silver Spring Maryland 20910CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (301) 608-8961
- Ara - Adelphi3.81 miles away1801 Metzerott Rd Hyattsville Maryland 20783Dialysis Stations: 12 (301) 434-1884