Greater Baltimore Medical Center Sub Acute Unit

We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This first-rate facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing grades are mostly tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A for inspections. Our inspection grades are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. We weren't able to track down information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without having all of the information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it ended up being difficult to fully evaluate the place in this area.

The last area we looked at is long-term care. In this area, we gave this nursing home a decent grade of B-. This actually was this facility's weakest category. Long-term care grades assess a facility's personal care rather than the highly skilled therapy or medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.