Fairland Center
2101 Fairland Road, Silver Spring MD 20904 · (301) 384-6161 · 82.28% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Fairland Center is in Silver Spring, Maryland. The city has many options. This is a lower end facility, with an overall grade of D. This place seems to have very little going for it. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 92 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Although we did not rate this facility well overall, we want to point out its decent grade of B- for short-term care. This is not a horrible grade In calculating our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This category is more often than not a fair measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. When we assessed this nursing home's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most facilities. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it was respectable in this area with 47 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this category. According to its CMS reports, this facility provided an average of 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Approximately one fourth of this care came from registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these figures are higher than average. Finally, our nursing score also includes relevant quality-based metrics. While this place excelled in terms of quantity of nursing hours, it fell short in some of the datapoints that related to quality. This nursing home's nursing score was pulled down by its weak performance in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers. In fact, we found that 19.9 percent of this nursing home's patients sustained pressure ulcers. Since many pressure ulcers can be avoided with sufficient nursing protocols, we reduce a facility's nursing grade when we find this kind of prevalence of pressure ulcers.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received a solid inspection report this year as well. It received one of our better grades in that area with a score of B-. We are surprised this nursing home received three grades of this caliber. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 13 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we assessed was long-term care, is this facility's worst area. We gave this facility a D in that category. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. This facility's vaccination statistics were not as strong as its nursing hours data. It administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 89.3617 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was also a cause for concern. We found that this place had 2.58 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an alarming rate.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Fairland Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This figure indicates the percent of long-term stay patients who have had a fall which resulted in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with poor nursing care. More frequent bathing can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are used to treat residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who are showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that were able to retain mobility. Some experts argue that the ability to move around is critical to patients health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
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.
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 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better