Mount Vernon Healthcare Center
8111 Tiswell Drive, Alexandria VA 22306 · (703) 360-4000 · 90.38% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Mount Vernon Healthcare Center is located in the large metropolitan area of Alexandria, Virginia. With an overall grade of B, this looks like a good option. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Alexandria. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 130 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few facilities fared better in this area. Inspection ratings are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
Among the reasons we rated this facility so favorably is that it was awarded a favorable short-term care score. In fact, short-term care ended up being its second most favorable category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A-. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The last measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. It fared as well as just about any facility in Virginia in this area with 61.9 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, less than half of their short-stay patients ever return home.
Nurse Quality
This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing grade assesses quite a few subcategories, however, the main one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a patient even once per day.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our final category, we gave this facility a D for the area of long-term care. This is the facility's worst category grade. Naturally, this grade hurt the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.51 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mount Vernon Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term care patients who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents who have experienced a fall leading to serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls may be an indicator of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some argue that this is a measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better