Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods is a senior living facility located in Cambridge, Maryland, which has a total of 17,330 people. This facility was awarded an overall grade of B, which is a quality score. You can definitely do much worse than this facility. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.
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Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Bariatric Care
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
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Facility Inspections
On top of receiving a great overall rating, this facility fared even better in our inspections category which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. We gave it an A- for that area, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Another one of this facility's impressive category scores came in the area of long-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B+. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 92.59259 percent of its patients. This is slightly lower than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our higher grades in our short-term care category as well, with a B. With our short-term care category, we attempt to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The final area we scored was nursing. This nursing home was awarded a B- for this area. There are several data points included in this grade. Many of these factors are tied to nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this area. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a patient even once per day.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 4.78% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 2.36% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term stay residents which have experienced falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 1.09% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing limits the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 18.41% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 14.14% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients which are administered antianxiety medication. These medications are generally used to treat patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 16.36% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 96.3% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 20% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 15.93% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 0.49 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 15.93% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 10.97% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Autumn Lake Healthcare at Chesapeake Woods, 79.22% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a measure of rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Umd Shore Medical Center at EastonAcute Care Hospitals 13.71 miles away219 South Washington Street Easton Maryland 21601Voluntary non-profit - Private(410) 822-1000
Nearby Dialysis
- Cambridge Dialysis Center1.58 miles away704 Cambridge Plaza Cambridge Maryland 21613CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (410) 228-2791
- Advanced Dialysis Center - Easton13.03 miles away610 E Dutchmans Ln Easton Maryland 21601Dialysis Stations: 9 (410) 820-9873
- Davita - Easton13.4 miles away500 Cadmus Ln, Suite 201 Easton Maryland 21601CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 15 (410) 822-8659