Patapsco Valley Center
9109 Liberty Road, Randallstown MD 21133 · (410) 655-7373 · 69.41% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
With an address in Randallstown, Maryland, Patapsco Valley Center is one of four facilities in this city. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this is likely a decent facility. At the end of the day, this facility should be a good fit for quite a few people. The best part of this facility's profile was is its nursing rating. We discuss nursing in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 172 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
The main reason this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this facility a grade of A-. The nursing grade weighs a handful of datapoints, however, the most important consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which was above the national average. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any facility in the country. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Short-term care scores are important for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the facility. It fared better than most facilities in this area with 54 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, less than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also received a decent inspection grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This facility was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we looked at is long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. We awarded this facility a D in this category. This really is one of the few weak points in an otherwise impressive profile. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. With a long-term care grade in this range, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that this facility received good marks in both nursing hours and its vaccination records. Indeed, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 95.98109 percent of its residents. This percentage is higher than many nursing homes. We were far less impressed with the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 4.31 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is more than double the national average. This is certainly a concerning figure.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Patapsco Valley Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a reliable measure of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percent of long-term care residents who have experienced urinary tract infections. Although more infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to facilities having inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of patients who received 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 indicates the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is typically a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better