Rockville Skilled Nursing & Rehab Center

The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an excellent inspection score. Its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

We also gave this facility a middle of the pack score in the area of short-term care, where it received a grade of B-. Our short-term care scores are meaningful for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The critical question is whether this adversely impacted quality of care. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home's second least favorable category was long-term care, where it received just a D in that category. This is a relatively poor grade. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically are not as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 90.69768 percent of its patients, which is not a very encouraging sign. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

The final area we scored is nursing, was this facility's worst category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this area. The nursing category is based on many subcategories, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provided only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. Unfortunately, this place also had abysmal marks in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than twice the national average in this datapoint. This is alarming when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a very poor nursing grade.