Lorien Mays Chapel is a nursing home in Lutherville Timonium, Maryland, a city with a population of 36,465 people. This nursing home received an excellent grade of A- overall. This is even better than the city grade of B+ in Lutherville Timonium, which is also well above average. This is just about as good of a nursing home as you're going to find. If you look below, you can see this nursing home's category grades, which are also impressive.
Lorien Mays Chapel
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Lymphedema Care
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for short-term care. In determining our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is frequently a solid assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we gave this facility an A- for inspections. Our inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we gave them one of our stronger grades in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B+. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.69565 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our final category, this facility was awarded a very strong nursing score. We awarded it a B+ in that category, completing one of our better profiles. Our nursing rating is mostly associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 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.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Lorien Mays Chapel Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 10.24% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 2.73% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric indicates the percent of long-term residents who had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 2.07% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term patients who suffered from a UTI. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's cleanliness, it is difficult to compare different nursing homes due to nursing homes having varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 13.1% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 14.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are typically prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 10.18% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. Higher levels of depression could be an indicator worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 92.14% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 19.83% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 28.37% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 1.1 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 28.37 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 8.93 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Lorien Mays Chapel, 74.3% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of independence with activities of daily living typically correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Greater Baltimore Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.95 miles away6701 North Charles Street Towson Maryland 21204Voluntary non-profit - Private(443) 849-2000
- University of Md St Joseph Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.6 miles away7601 Osler Drive Towson Maryland 21204Voluntary non-profit - Private(410) 337-1000
- Sinai Hospital of BaltimoreAcute Care Hospitals 7.32 miles away2401 West Belvedere Avenue Baltimore Maryland 21215Voluntary non-profit - Private(410) 601-5131
- Medstar Good Samaritan HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 7.97 miles away5601 Loch Raven Boulevard Baltimore Maryland 21239Voluntary non-profit - Other(443) 444-3902
- Medstar Union Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.33 miles away201 East University Parkway Baltimore Maryland 21218Voluntary non-profit - Other(410) 554-2227
- Northwest Hospital CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.54 miles away5401 Old Court Road Randallstown Maryland 21133Voluntary non-profit - Private(410) 521-2200
- University of Md Medical Center Midtown CampusAcute Care Hospitals 11.29 miles away827 Linden Avenue Baltimore Maryland 21201Voluntary non-profit - Other(410) 225-8996
- Kennedy Krieger InstituteChildrens 11.73 miles away707 North Broadway Baltimore Maryland 21205Voluntary non-profit - Private(443) 923-9301
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Kidney Care Lutheran Greenspring Drive1.15 miles away1940 Greenspring Drive Lutherville Timonium Maryland 21093Dialysis Stations: 16 (410) 252-2140
- Davita Dulaney Towson Dialysis Center4.22 miles away113 West Road Towson Maryland 21204CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (410) 825-3690
- Davita - Falls Road5.5 miles away1423 Clarkview Road Ste 500 Baltimore Maryland 21209CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (410) 828-4643
- Fresenius Medical Care Towson5.7 miles away7801 York Road, Ste. 150 Towson Maryland 21204Dialysis Stations: 16 (410) 321-0853
- Northwest Dialysis Center6.41 miles away2245 Rolling Run Dr Ste 1 Windsor Mill Maryland 21244CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (410) 265-0158
- Fmc of Porter Dialysis - Pikesville6.78 miles away115 Mchenry Ave Bedford Square 2 Suite D Pikesville Maryland 21208Dialysis Stations: 13 (410) 484-3127
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Cromwell6.85 miles away8710 Emge Rd Parkville Maryland 21234Dialysis Stations: 6 (410) 661-0801
- Bertha Sirk Dialysis Center7.35 miles away5820 York Rd Ste 10 Baltimore Maryland 21212Dialysis Stations: 16 (410) 532-9311