Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Berlin, Maryland. With an overall rating of C, this is likely a middle of the road facility. Based on the data we reviewed, there are definitely much worse facilities out there. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection grade, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this facility an A- for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than its overall grade. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was awarded a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our better. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational 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, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second lowest category is long-term care, where it earned just a D in that area. This is a relatively poor score. Nursing homes that don't score well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 83.21429 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our next area, this nursing home really didn't perform well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this was its weakest area. There are a variety of criteria included in this grade. Many of the factors are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 14.22% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 2.86% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that have experienced a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3.64% of Patients had UTIs
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents which have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indication of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 24.34% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 17.84% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 5.6% of Patients
This is the percent of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 90.09% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 19.92% of Patients
This is the percent of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of erosion of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 29.72% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 29.72% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.2% of Patients
This metric 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
In Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 62.63% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's generally correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Atlantic General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.11 miles away9733 Healthway Drive Berlin Maryland 21811Voluntary non-profit - Private(410) 641-9600
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Berlin Dialysis0.54 miles away9952 Main Street Building 3 Berlin Maryland 21811Dialysis Stations: 19 (410) 641-1321
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Millsboro18.15 miles away30164 Commerce Drive Millsboro Delaware 19966Dialysis Stations: 12 (302) 934-6342
- Fmc - North Salisbury19.41 miles away1314 Belmont Ave Ste 304 Salisbury Maryland 21804CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (410) 860-6650