Multi-Medical Center
7700 York Road, Towson MD 21204 · (410) 821-5500 · 90% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Multi-Medical Center is one of eight available facilities in Towson, Maryland. With an overall rating of B, this nursing home is a great option. The nursing homes in Towson received high grades across the board with a B+ city grade, making this one of the best places in Maryland to find a nursing home. One of the highlights of this nursing home's profile is its strong short-term care score, which we will address in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 118 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an impressive grade of A for our short-term care grade. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more critical for patients in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. It performed as well as just about any facility in Maryland in this area with 66.2 percent of its patients returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents return home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we gave it an A for that area, which is one of our highest scores. This is one of the few nursing homes with an overall score in this range which received multiple category grades this high. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor dings aren't necessarily something to panic about.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. We weighed the levels of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses worked with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This facility provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is among the highest figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We were really impressed by both of these figures. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we scored was long-term care. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. You shouldn't simply rule out a facility because of a single bad score though. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. After considering nursing hours and other staffing provided by this nursing home, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. Based on its grade in this category, it is surprising to discover that this nursing home performed reasonably well both statistics. In fact, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place also was not as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. While it had 2.99 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was not bad due to it having some more complex patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Multi-Medical Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients that have new or worsened pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall resulting in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better