Montgomery Village Health Care Center
19301 Watkins Mill Road, Gaithersburg MD 20879 · (301) 527-2500 · 79.79% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Montgomery Village Health Care Center is a large facility located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. With an overall score of B+, this facility should work for most prospective patients. Based on our analysis, this facility looks like a good fit for most people. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its short-term care rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 147 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in our short-term care category. We awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Short-term care scores are important for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country with 65.2 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.
Nurse Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing grade is primarily based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented with better nursing care.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily something to panic about.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we analyzed was nursing, was this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. This is one of just a couple of dings of an otherwise strong profile. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this facility gave the vaccine to only 75.53191 percent of its residents, which is a bit of a concern. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. Although it had 1.8 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't as bad since it had more complex patients. This was its best score in this category
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Montgomery Village Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients that sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of lower quality nursing care. However, this metric may be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better