Cadia Healthcare - Hyattsville

While this nursing home's overall grade was terrible, it actually didn't perform as poorly in nursing. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next most favorable score was short-term care. However, with a D in this category, it still performed somewhat poorly. In the category of short-term care, we try to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. With a score of this caliber in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this place was below average in the two key staffing metrics we assess. In fact, it supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.5 percent of its residents returning home.

Unfortunately, this nursing home received really poor inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F in our inspection category. An F in this category is generally a sign that we found some red flags on the nursing home's inspections. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We would scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This usually signifies that a bad track record spanned multiple years.

Moving on to our final category, this facility really did not fare well in this area either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 93.71493 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is a bit below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This is its best score in this category.