Maryland Baptist Aged Home

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In this category, we gave this facility an A. Nursing ratings are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its top-shelf resume, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category. In fact, we gave it a score of A in that area. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 83.83839 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Our inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next area we graded was short-term care. We gave this facility one of our higher scores in this area, with a grade of B. Even though this was not as favorable as many of this facility's other scores, it is still a perfectly acceptable grade. Our short-term care grades are probably more critical for folks requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.