Charlotte Hall Veterans Home is the sole nursing home located in Charlotte Hall, Maryland. With an overall score of B, this looks like a fine facility. This facility truly has plenty of good features. You also may want to review this facility's category grades below. We discuss short-term care in the next section.
Charlotte Hall Veterans Home
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Grade: B
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Optometry
Awards
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Short-term Care Quality
Grade: A-minus
In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home received even higher grades in the area of short-term care. In fact, it received one of our best scores in that category with A-. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is often a meaningful measure of a facility's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, we were not able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
Grade: B-plus
This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. It earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that area with an B+. Few facilities with an overall grade in this range performed this well in multiple categories. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.
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Long-term Care Quality
Grade: B
This nursing home is also above average in the category of long-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B. It performed better than most nursing homes in this category. Facilities that do well in long-term care tend to provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.65854 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Nurse Quality
Grade: B-minus
Moving on to the fourth area, this nursing home was given a decent nursing grade of B-. There are a host of factors included in this area. Many of the criteria reflect staffing levels. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other nursing homes. Finally, while this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this subcategory.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Charlotte Hall Veterans Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
Grade: B-plus
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 10.24% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term residents who developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
Grade: D
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 2.73% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents that suffered from a fall which caused severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
Grade: C
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 2.07% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols can minimize the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
Grade: F
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 13.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for many conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Tragically, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
Grade: B-minus
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 14.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric gauges the percent of long-term stay residents which were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
Grade: B
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 10.18% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Grade: B-plus
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 92.14% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Grade: F
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 19.83% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate the decline of a resident's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Grade: A
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 28.37% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
Grade: B-minus
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 1.1 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Grade: D
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 28.37 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Grade: B-plus
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 8.93 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess patient care during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Grade: B
In Charlotte Hall Veterans Home, 74.3% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Umd Charles Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.9 miles away5 Garrett Avenue La Plata Maryland 20646Voluntary non-profit - Private(301) 609-4265
- Calverthealth Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.29 miles away100 Hospital Road Prince Frederick Maryland 20678Voluntary non-profit - Other(410) 535-8240
- Medstar Saint Mary's HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.3 miles away25500 Point Lookout Road Leonardtown Maryland 20650Voluntary non-profit - Private(301) 475-6001
- Medstar Southern Maryland Hospital CenterAcute Care Hospitals 19.58 miles away7503 Surratts Road Clinton Maryland 20735Voluntary non-profit - Private(301) 868-8000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Kidney Care Southern Maryland Home3.39 miles away28103 Three Notch Rd Suite 1 A Mechanicsville Maryland 20659Dialysis Stations: 1 (301) 884-6054
- Bma- Laplata10.45 miles away10210 Laplata Road La Plata Maryland 20646CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (301) 392-3007
- Idf - Calvert Center11.05 miles away225 W Dares Beach Rd Prince Frederick Maryland 20678Dialysis Stations: 15 (410) 535-6300
- Renal Carepartners - Prince Frederick11.28 miles away205 Steeple Chase Dr Ste 201 Prince Frederick Maryland 20678Dialysis Stations: 16 (410) 414-8000
- Davita La Plata Dialysis11.45 miles away6700 Crain Hwy La Plata Maryland 20646Dialysis Stations: 19 (301) 934-2784
- Charles County Dialysis11.73 miles away4475 Regency Place Unit 102 & 103 White Plains Maryland 20695CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (301) 932-9874
- Fmc - Waldorf12.01 miles away3510 Old Washington Road Suite 300 Waldorf Maryland 20603CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 15 (301) 870-0220
- Bma - Leonardtown13.33 miles away40865 Merchants Lane Leonardtown Maryland 20650CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (301) 870-2174
