Hammonds Lane Center

Hammonds Lane Center is located in Brooklyn, Maryland. This city has a total of 33,545 people. This is a great nursing home. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is very good rating. This place truly has plenty going for it. We were also pleased to find that this place did not have any bad scores in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.

This nursing home received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially want to note its excellent short-term care score. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our short-term care grades are presumably more important for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. It performed as well as just about any facility in the country in this area with 63.3 percent of its residents returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.

This facility received high grades in the area of nursing as well. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Our nursing grade is largely based on a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of moving a resident more frequently.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

The last category we looked at was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a B-. While this turned out to be its worst category grade, this is nevertheless not a terrible score. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled nursing and medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 96.89441 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.