Holly Hill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
531 Stevenson Lane, Towson MD 21286 · (410) 823-5310 · 95.6% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Holly Hill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home in Towson, Maryland. This turns out to be a middle of the pack facility, with an overall grade of C. Towson received a city grade of B+, so there are some other options in the city worth looking at. The best part of this facility's profile was is its nursing grade. Nursing grades are discussed in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 75 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
This facility's best category score came in nursing. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. It actually outperformed most facilities in this category. When calculating our nursing grades, we look at both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provided 4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Roughly one quarter of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. Both are impressive figures, which typically correlates with quality care. Lastly, this nursing home also performed above average in several of the quality measures we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also was given a positive short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded them a grade of B in this area, which happens to be one of our better. Our short-term care grade is typically used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This facility elevated its score in this area by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. It performed respectably in this area with 45.9 percent of its residents returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we graded was long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is clearly concerning. Facilities that receive this kind of score in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 93.359375 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is a few points lower than we anticipated but still a decent percentage. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.13 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Holly Hill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients which suffered a fall which caused serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be a sign of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients that had a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be an indicator of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are generally used to treat patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who are showing signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and using the bathroom.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better