Blue Point Healthcare Center is in Baltimore, Maryland. This city is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the country with has 632,623 people. This is a lower end facility, with an overall grade of D. In our view, we would struggle to recommend this facility. If you aren't deterred by this place's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next section.
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Blue Point Healthcare Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 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 Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Bariatric Care
- Oncology Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Catheter Care
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although we did not rate this place favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively favorable health inspections in recent years. We gave it a respectable grade of B in this category, which is much better than its overall score. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in short-term care. This facility earned a B in this category, which is one of our better scores. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility's second lowest category is long-term care, where it earned just a D in that area. This is a relatively poor score. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 92.10526 percent of its patients, which is somewhat below what we anticipated. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.
Nurse Quality
The final category we graded is nursing, in which this facility was given a poor grade here also. We gave it an F for this category, which is obviously a major disappointment. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Blue Point Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 10.7% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 2.39% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term patients that have had falls which caused serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often the result of lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 7.69% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 18.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are used to treat patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 12.57% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 94.23% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 34.87% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 15.09% of Residents
This tells you the percent of patients that maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 15.09% of Residents Rehospitalized
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 15.92% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Blue Point Healthcare Center, 93.09% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Scores for Baltimore, MD
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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