Carriage Hill Bethesda
5215 Cedar Lane, Bethesda MD 20814 · (301) 897-5500 · 60.46% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Carriage Hill Bethesda is located in Bethesda, Maryland. This nursing home proved to be a grade A facility, which is a high-end grade. In fact, this proved to be better than many of the nursing homes in Bethesda, which has a strong selection of nursing homes. Finally, this worked out to be a very consistent nursing home with consistent grades in all four of our categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 108 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
On top of being an elite facility overall, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few facilities fared this well in this category. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was awarded a first-rate short-term care score. This actually turned out to be this facility's second strongest category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To provide high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. One of this place's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found it provides at least one and a half times as many hours with physical therapists as most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 64.1 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
We also would like to emphasize the fact that this nursing home was given a first-rate grade of A- in our long-term care area. When nursing homes receive this type of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to providing very favorable levels of nursing care, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.66 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Nurse Quality
The final category we assessed is nursing, where this facility was given a grade of A-. This wrapped up an elite profile. Few facilities earned an A- or better in all four categories. Nursing ratings are tied to quality and quantity of nursing care. This place offers a very impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is among the more impressive figures in Maryland. Finally, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home the country when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Carriage Hill Bethesda Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall which caused severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to insufficient hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for many medical conditions, including cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating symptoms of depression. High rates of depression may be a sign a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term patients that maintained mobility. Some experts believe that mobility is important for patients health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is key to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better