The Village at Rockville
9701 Veirs Drive, Rockville MD 20850 · (301) 424-9560 · 94.75% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
The Village at Rockville is a large non-profit nursing home in Rockville, Maryland. Featuring an overall score of B, this is a fine nursing home. Based on our ratings, this facility has quite a bit going for it. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its short-term care score, which we will address in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 160 Beds
CCRC :
Non profit - Church related
Resident Council:
Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in our short-term care category, where it earned a grade of A+. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This facility is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. The facility provided about 1.5 times as many registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical nursing home. The final metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Maryland in this area with 64.2 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. There are several criteria within this grade. Many of these datapoints reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls resulting in major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home the country.
Facility Inspections
Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in inspections, with a grade of B in that category. It performed better than most nursing homes in this area. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's weakest area is long-term care, which is the final area we assessed. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of just D. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at nursing care provided by this nursing home, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. Based on its grade in this category, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that this facility performed reasonably well both subcategories. In fact, this nursing home vaccinated 97.71574 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than many nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.93 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Village at Rockville Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are routinely associated with poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections could be linked to poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many believe this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who retained mobility levels. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint is a measure of 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 datapoint measures the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better