Located in Annapolis, Maryland, Ginger Cove is one of five facilities in the area. This is an A+ facility, which is the absolute highest grade. You simply can not do any better than this place. Scroll down to find this facility's category scores, which are equally impressive. You really can't do any better than a straight A profile.
Ginger Cove
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to point out that this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. In calculating a facility's nursing grade, we look at the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Maryland in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a patient even once per day.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home has earned near flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an A in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
This facility also fared very well in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Few facilities performed better in this category. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Short-term Care Quality
In our last category, we gave this facility an A for our short-term care grade. This completed a very impressive profile. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to create a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Ginger Cove Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Ginger Cove, 10.24% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Ginger Cove, 2.73% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a fall resulting in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Ginger Cove, 2.07% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Additional nurse staffing limits the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this datapoint is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Ginger Cove, 13.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients who are given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to having more patients with cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Ginger Cove, 14.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Ginger Cove, 10.18% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents demonstrating signs of depression. Many in the industry would argue that this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Ginger Cove, 92.14% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Ginger Cove, 19.83% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Ginger Cove, 28.37% Percentage of Residents
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is vital to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Ginger Cove, 1.1 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Ginger Cove, 28.37 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Ginger Cove, 8.93 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Ginger Cove, 74.3% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Annapolis, MD
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
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