United Medical Nursing Home
1310 Southern Avenue, Se, Suite 200, Washington DC 20032 · (202) 574-7123 · 69.25% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
United Medical Nursing Home is just one of 19 possibilities in Washington, District of Columbia. We gave it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the pack score. In our view, this facility would be a good fit for quite a few people. The best part of this nursing home's report card was its stellar nursing rating. Nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of nursing. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are seeing residents as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This place provides an impressive 5.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Out of this total, nearly one fourth of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its residents sustaining falls which lead to serious injury, this place performed as well as just about any place we looked at.
Short-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a positive grade in short-term care. This nursing home earned a B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our higher grades. In forming these short-term care scores, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This place excelled at the highest level in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility offered about 50% more care from registered nurses and physical therapists than the typical nursing home. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 25.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's second worse score is long-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that area. This is a well below average grade. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 94.34524 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.18 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
Facility Inspections
Turning the final category of inspections, this ended up being this facility's weakest link. Inspection grades are based on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. We gave this nursing home a D in this category, which is a very poor grade. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. Generally, you should be especially cautious when considering a facility with severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This particular facility had 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This usually signifies that a nursing home's bad performance has been an issue for multiple years.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
United Medical Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents which developed pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that sustained a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for treating a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are given to patients suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percent of patients who maintained mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better