Future Care Courtland
7920 Scotts Level Road, Pikesville MD 21208 · (410) 521-3600 · 91.19% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
With an address in Pikesville, Maryland, Future Care Courtland is one of four nursing homes in this area. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A grade of this caliber requires strong scores in most areas. As far as we can see, this facility is a good fit for quite a few people. This facility is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 151 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is it received a very impressive short-term care grade. Short-term care is its best category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A. Our short-term care grade is often used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. It fared as well as just about any nursing home in this area with 61.7 percent of its residents returning home. Most places are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also performed well in inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. It received one of our best scores in that category with an A-. Few nursing homes with an overall grade in this range performed this well in multiple categories. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.
Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing grade features many subcategories. The most important factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This nursing home offers high levels of nursing care, with an average of 3.9 hours per patient per day. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls leading to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility in the country.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our final area, this facility was awarded a decent long-term care grade. Even though this is not nearly as good as a few of its other category grades, this is really a middle of the pack score. Long-term care grades assess a facility's assistance with daily living rather than the skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. One of the criteria we considered after this facility's impressive nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 95.53571 percent of its patients. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. While it had 2.52 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most facilities due to it having some more complex patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Future Care Courtland Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls are often caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care patients that have sustained a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients which were administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that retained mobility levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better