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Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek

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Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B
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347 Ballenger Drive,
Frederick MD 21701

(301) 663-5181

79.53% estimated occupancy 1

Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek is in Frederick, Maryland. This city has a total of 120,323 people. This is a good facility. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a very solid grade. This place definitely has plenty going for it. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong report card is its nursing score. Nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Bariatric Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Lymphedema Care

Awards

Top Nursing Home in Maryland badge

Top Nursing Home in Maryland Awards 2020

Registered Staff Hours

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Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent nursing rating. We gave them an A- in this category. There are many factors within this grade. Most of these criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

An additional quality feature for this nursing home is that it received a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B+. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 5 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B-minus

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of B- for our inspections rating. This is a very respectable nursing score. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

Moving on to our next area, this facility received a grade of C for long-term care, which is a decent grade. Our long-term care grade is typically used to gauge a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.46835 percent of its residents, which is higher than the average nursing home. This facility also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18May 23

Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: C

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 10.28% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 2.53% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 2.06% of Patients had UTIs

This metric gauges the percentage of long-term residents that have sustained urinary tract infections. While more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 12.87% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are used for several conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 13.59% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric gauges the percent of long-term residents which were prescribed antianxiety medication. These drugs are commonly prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: D

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 11.04% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term care residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some argue this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 90.84% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 20.64% Percentage of Patients

This is the percent of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of decline of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 24.5% Percentage of Residents

This metric measures the percent of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 1.3 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 24.5 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-minus

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 9.63 Percentage of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-plus

In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Ballenger Creek, 73.32% Percentage of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Frederick Health HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.07 miles away400 West Seventh St Frederick Maryland 21701Voluntary non-profit - Private(240) 566-3300
  • Holy Cross Germantown HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.02 miles away19801 Observation Drive Germantown Maryland 20876Voluntary non-profit - Private(301) 557-6020

Nearby Dialysis

  • Ballenger Creek Dialysis1.46 miles away5205 Chairmans Court Ste. 101 Frederick Maryland 21703CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (301) 662-6572
  • Davita Golden Mile Dialysis1.9 miles away1306 W. Patrick Street Suite 5 Frederick Maryland 21703Dialysis Stations: 13 (301) 696-1090
  • Fresenius Kidney Care Frederick3.37 miles away163 Thomas Johnson Drive Ste C Frederick Maryland 21702Dialysis Stations: 13 (240) 815-6845
  • Davita - Frederick3.48 miles away140 Thomas Johnson Dr Ste 100 Frederick Maryland 21702CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (301) 695-0900
  • Davita Ridge Road Dialysis14.56 miles away530 E Ridgeville Blvd Mount Airy Maryland 21771Dialysis Stations: 13 (301) 829-5162
  • Fresenius Kidney Care Germantown16.6 miles away19851 Obersavtion Drive Suite 150 Germantown Maryland 20876Dialysis Stations: 15 (301) 540-7010
  • Germantown Dialysis17.11 miles away20111 Century Blvd Ste C Germantown Maryland 20874CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (301) 540-4601
  • Davita - Middlebrook Dialysis17.82 miles away12401 Middlebrook Rd Ste 160 Germantown Maryland 20874Dialysis Stations: 19 (301) 540-6020