Birch Manor Healthcare Center
7309 Second Avenue, Sykesville MD 21784 · (410) 795-1100 · 82.88% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Birch Manor Healthcare Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Sykesville, Maryland. Our grading scheme was not favorable to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall rating of F. If you are not happy with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Sykesville. The city has just three other nursing homes. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 118 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to receiving a bad overall grade, we also gave this nursing home poor scores in the various categories. In fact, it only received a D for its inspections grade, which was its best area. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. You should be most cautious when considering a nursing home that has severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 3 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home wound up receiving a a terrible grade in our long-term care category. It received an F in this area. Nursing homes that don't fare well in this category typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 73.94958 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.22 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is also concerning.
Short-term Care Quality
In our next category, we gave this nursing home an F in the area of short-term care. In the area of short-term care, we seek to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. As you might expect, we learned that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. Finally, we considered the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 41.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our next category, this nursing home really didn't fare very well here either. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is really as terrible as it gets. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in determining our grade in this category. This particular place averaged a meager 2.6 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This figure is quite a bit below the national average. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Birch Manor Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of long-term residents that had a fall which caused major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing scores.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term stay patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indicator of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression. High rates of depression could imply worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these vaccines important for resident well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that retained mobility levels. Some experts would argue that mobility is vital to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better