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. In determining our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This score is often a meaningful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. This place is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. It provided roughly 1.5 times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical nursing home. This is what we like to find when grading a nursing home in this category. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Maryland in this area with 78.1 percent of its patients returning home.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Nursing ratings are mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 7.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day, of which a significant portion was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any facility in the nation when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these areas as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

Another impressive feature of this nursing home is its inspection score. In that category, we gave this facility an A. Our inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category usually have very few severe deficiencies. We were not able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without having all of the deficiency related data for this nursing home, it ended up being a challenge to fully evaluate the place in terms of this category.

The last area we looked at was long-term care. This nursing home was given a better than average long-term care rating this year, with a B-. While this wasn't quite as dominant as some of its other scores, this is still an acceptable grade for this category. Long-term care scores are based in part on a facility's volume of care. This includes a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home provided data regarding vaccinations. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.