Ravenwood Nursing Care Center

Ravenwood Nursing Care Center is one of six facilities located in Hagerstown, Maryland. We gave this nursing home a C overall, which isn't a bad score. This is comparable with the city grade in Hagerstown, which is a B-. Based on the data we reviewed, there are definitely much worse nursing homes out there. One of the better aspects of this nursing home's profile is its strong short-term care grade, which is addressed in the next section.

We awarded this facility an A for our short-term care score. This score is far more impressive than its overall grade. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. To have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 64.1 percent of its residents returning home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home earned an impressive grade of B+ in the category of nursing. Nursing scores are mostly based on a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provides an impressive 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Out of this total, more than one fourth of these hours were provided by registered nurses, which is among the most highly trained levels of nurses. We add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses in determining our nursing scores. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its inspection score. This is an important category. Scores in this range generally mean we found some red flags on the nursing home's inspection reports. When a place has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 6 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

The last area we analyzed is long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's least impressive area. It received a lowly F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.77551 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable total. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.19 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.