Medilodge of Capital Area

The main thing propping up this facility's profile is its elite nursing rating. In fact, we awarded this nursing home an A+ in that category. Nursing grades are tied to nurse staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also excelled in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A-. Not many nursing homes performed more favorably in this category. In our short-term care rating, we seek to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of residents that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our long-term care score. This is not a score to write home about. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The last category we assessed was inspections. This nursing home did not receive favorable inspections in recent years. In fact, we gave it an F in this category. This dragged down this facility's overall score quite a bit. For nursing homes with poor inspection grades, you should really focus on any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This particular nursing home was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies uncovered by inspectors had potential to create actual harm to patients. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines in excess of $50,000. This typically indicates that inspectors grew tired after multiple years of bad government inspections.