Roland Park Place

In addition to earning a strong overall rating, this nursing home performed even better in our inspections category which is based on the facility's recent inspections. We awarded it an A for this area, which is one of our best grades. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS 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.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility fared well in the area of long-term care as well. Consequently, we gave it a grade of A- for that category, which turns out to be one of our most favorable scores. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 92.47312 percent of its patients. This is a few points lower than we anticipated but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final area we scored was short-term care. We awarded this facility an acceptable grade in this category, with a grade of C. Although this was not as favorable as several of this nursing home's other grades, it is still not a major area of concern. In computing these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different facilities. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 3.7 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.