ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson) is a large non-profit nursing home located in Towson, Maryland. This is a fine nursing home. We gave this it an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average score. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all facilities in the nation. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive profile was its short-term care score. short-term care grades are discussed in the next section
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ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson)
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
Grade: B-plus
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
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Short-term Care Quality
Grade: A
In addition to faring well overall, this nursing home received even higher grades for short-term care. It earned one of our best scores in that category with a score of A. With our short-term care category, we seek to create a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Facility Inspections
Grade: A-minus
In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
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Nurse Quality
Grade: B-plus
Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B+. When computing a facility's nursing score, we look at the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning residents more often.
Long-term Care Quality
Grade: B-minus
The final area we graded was long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a solid grade in this area, with a B-. While this was not as favorable as some of its other scores, it is nevertheless not the end of the world. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson) Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
Grade: C
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 10.28% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay patients that are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are an measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
Grade: A
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 2.53% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who sustained a fall leading to major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
Grade: B-plus
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 2.06% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
Grade: A-minus
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 12.87% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients who are administered antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
Grade: A
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 13.59% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
Grade: A+
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 11.04% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry argue this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Grade: A-minus
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 90.84% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Grade: B-minus
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 20.64% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and eating. Some experts believe that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Grade: A
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 24.5% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
Grade: A-minus
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 1.3 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Grade: D
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 24.5 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Grade: B
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 9.63 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to assess patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Grade: D
In ProMedica Skilled Nursing And Rehabilitation (Towson), 73.32% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Towson, MD
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
Looking for more options? Towson, Maryland has 4 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- University of Md St Joseph Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.4 miles away7601 Osler Drive Towson Maryland 21204Voluntary non-profit - Private(410) 337-1000
- Greater Baltimore Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.92 miles away6701 North Charles Street Towson Maryland 21204Voluntary non-profit - Private(443) 849-2000
- Medstar Good Samaritan HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.93 miles away5601 Loch Raven Boulevard Baltimore Maryland 21239Voluntary non-profit - Other(443) 444-3902
- Sinai Hospital of BaltimoreAcute Care Hospitals 4.93 miles away2401 West Belvedere Avenue Baltimore Maryland 21215Voluntary non-profit - Private(410) 601-5131
- Medstar Union Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.08 miles away201 East University Parkway Baltimore Maryland 21218Voluntary non-profit - Other(410) 554-2227
- Medstar Franklin Square Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.88 miles away9000 Franklin Square Drive Rosedale Maryland 21237Voluntary non-profit - Private(443) 777-7850
- Kennedy Krieger InstituteChildrens 7.14 miles away707 North Broadway Baltimore Maryland 21205Voluntary non-profit - Private(443) 923-9301
- University of Md Medical Center Midtown CampusAcute Care Hospitals 7.2 miles away827 Linden Avenue Baltimore Maryland 21201Voluntary non-profit - Other(410) 225-8996
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Medical Care Towson0.94 miles away7801 York Road, Ste. 150 Towson Maryland 21204Dialysis Stations: 16 (410) 321-0853
- Davita Dulaney Towson Dialysis Center1.28 miles away113 West Road Towson Maryland 21204CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (410) 825-3690
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Cromwell1.81 miles away8710 Emge Rd Parkville Maryland 21234Dialysis Stations: 6 (410) 661-0801
- Fmc - Greater Baltimore2.93 miles away1104 Walters Avenue Baltimore Maryland 21239Dialysis Stations: 21 (410) 532-0389
- Bertha Sirk Dialysis Center2.94 miles away5820 York Rd Ste 10 Baltimore Maryland 21212Dialysis Stations: 16 (410) 532-9311
- Davita Good Samaritan Dialysis3.01 miles away5601 Loch Raven Boulevard Baltimore Maryland 21239Dialysis Stations: 53 (443) 444-4099
- Davita Loch Raven Dialysis3.33 miles away5315 York Rd Baltimore Maryland 21212Dialysis Stations: 16 (410) 323-8790
- Coldsprings Dialysis, LLC3.62 miles away4700 Hartford Road Baltimore Maryland 21214Dialysis Stations: 6 (443) 444-4907
