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Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B-minus
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1235 Potomac Valley Road,
Rockville MD 20850

(301) 762-0700

95.82% estimated occupancy 1

With an address in Rockville, Maryland, Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness is one of eight available nursing homes in this city. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B-. A score of this caliber requires some decent scores. You could definitely do worse than this nursing home. One of the highlights of this nursing home's report card is its strong inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • Is CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • Has Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Bariatric Care

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A-. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

Another one of this facility's more favorable category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. It actually fared better than most facilities in this area. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 93.485916 percent of its residents. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

This nursing home also received a strong score in our short-term care category. We awarded this nursing home a better than average grade of B in that category. In the category of short-term care, we try to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: D

The next area we graded is nursing, which proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this area. Of course, this score pulled down the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. Our nursing score includes a handful of factors, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and found that this place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic really dragged down this facility's nursing score significantly.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 9.19% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-plus

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 2.29% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls resulting in injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 1.46% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric may be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 33.94% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who are given antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more residents with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 18.82% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of residents who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are given to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: F

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 86.99% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 95.61% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: F

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 27.16% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 15.61% of Residents

This metric tracks the percent of long-term patients who remained mobile levels. Some argue that mobility is vital to patients mental and physical well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 15.61% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-plus

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 9.48% of Patients

This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-plus

In Potomac Valley Nursing & Wellness, 81.04% of Resident

This tells you the percent of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Scores for Rockville, MD

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

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Nearby Dialysis

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  • Bma - Bethesda3.7 miles away6420 Rockledge Dr Ste 1100 Bethesda Maryland 20817Dialysis Stations: 18 (301) 652-2554
  • Bma - Rockville4.3 miles away7524 Standish Pl Ste 100-B Derwood Maryland 20855Dialysis Stations: 16 (301) 610-0711
  • Gaithersburg Dialysis5.4 miles away202 Perry Parkway Suite 3 Gaithersburg Maryland 20877Dialysis Stations: 16 (301) 987-0912
  • Bma - Wheaton6.47 miles away10901b Georgia Avenue Silver Spring Maryland 20902Dialysis Stations: 14 (301) 933-1307