Goodwin House Alexandria is a facility located in Alexandria, Virginia which has a total of 321,490 people. This turns out to be an A+ rated facility. Being awarded an A+ in our rating scheme requires superb marks across the board. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top ten percent of all nursing homes in the nation. As you can find below, this place performed equally well in our category ratings. In fact, we gave it straight A's!
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Goodwin House Alexandria
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Church related
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this facility an A for inspections. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given a strong score of A in our long-term care area. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.42519 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
In our last area, this facility also was awarded a first-rate short-term care rating, with an A-. This topped off an elite profile. Short-term care ratings are critical for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Goodwin House Alexandria Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 0.95% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by patients 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 Goodwin House Alexandria, 2.36% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients that had a fall resulting in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 1.61% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric may also be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 6.69% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This measures the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 7.77% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 2.02% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 98.49% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 9.85% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 7.35% of Residents
This tells you the percent of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 0.68 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 7.35% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 9.04% 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 care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Goodwin House Alexandria, 76.87% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Alexandria, VA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
Looking for more options? Alexandria, Virginia has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Inova Alexandria HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1 miles away4320 Seminary Rd Alexandria Virginia 22304Voluntary non-profit - Private(703) 504-3167
- Virginia Hospital CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.71 miles away1701 North George Mason Drive Arlington Virginia 22205Voluntary non-profit - Private(703) 558-5000
- George Washington Univ HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.67 miles away900 23rd St Nw Washington District of Columbia 20037Proprietary(202) 716-4605
- Medstar Georgetown University HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.72 miles away3800 Reservoir Rd Washington District of Columbia 20007Voluntary non-profit - Private(202) 784-3000
- Inova Fairfax HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.14 miles away3300 Gallows Road Falls Church Virginia 22042Voluntary non-profit - Private(703) 776-4001
- United Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.89 miles away1310 Southern Avenue Se Washington District of Columbia 20032Proprietary(202) 574-6611
- Sibley Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.9 miles away5255 Loughboro Rd Nw Washington District of Columbia 20016Voluntary non-profit - Other(202) 537-4680
- Inova Mount Vernon HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.99 miles away2501 Parkers Lane Alexandria Virginia 22306Voluntary non-profit - Private(703) 664-7000
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Alexandria1.79 miles away5150 Duke St Alexandria Virginia 22304CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (703) 823-7940
- Alexandria Kidney Center1.81 miles away4141 Duke Street Alexandria Virginia 22304CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 36 (703) 370-8250
- Cdc - Alexandria2.07 miles away5999 Stevenson Ave Ste 100 Alexandria Virginia 22304CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (703) 751-6115
- Davita - Arlington2.14 miles away4805 First St North Arlington Virginia 22203CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (703) 527-0652
- Renal Carepartners - Arlington/Alexandria2.17 miles away2445 Army Navy Dr Anderson Bldg 2nd Floor Arlington Virginia 22206CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (703) 892-0250
- Davita Pentagon City Dialysis3.4 miles away1785 South Hayes St Arlington Virginia 22202Dialysis Stations: 8 (703) 920-0980
- Advanced Dialysis Center - Potomac3.4 miles away1785 S Hayes St Arlington Virginia 22202Dialysis Stations: 1 (703) 521-1056
- Us Renal Care Falls Church Dialysis3.75 miles away6541 Arlington Blvd Falls Church Virginia 22042Dialysis Stations: 13 (703) 533-8247