Maryland Baptist Aged Home

One of the many reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing proved to be its best category. In this category, we gave this nursing home an A. There are a variety of subcategories included in this category. Many of the factors are tied to 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was awarded a dominant grade of A in our long-term care area. For residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 88.77551 percent of its residents. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best scores in that area, with a score of A-. Our inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our last area, this facility also received an excellent short-term care grade, with a B+. This wrapped up a very strong report card. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.