TRANSITIONS HEALTHCARE AT SYKESVILLE (SYKESVILLE, MD) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.380
State:	0.759

Number of Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.990
Maryland:	0.899

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	1.370
State:	1.649

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.130
Maryland:	0.108

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.130
Maryland:	0.112

Complaint Deficiency

Make sure menus meet the resident's nutritional needs and that there is a prepared menu by which nutritious meals have been planned for the resident and followed
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Hire sufficient dietary support personnel
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Walls or barriers that prevent smoke from passing through and would resist fire for at least one hour
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Review or revise the resident's care plan after any major change in a resident's physical or mental health
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Post nurse staffing information/data on a daily basis
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Hire sufficient dietary support personnel
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, and receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder function
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide special eating equipment and utensils for each resident who needs them
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Proper construction of ducts through walls designed to prevent smoke passage
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Hire sufficient dietary support personnel
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Allow the resident the right to participate in the planning or revision of the resident's care plan
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly care for residents needing special services, including: injections, colostomy, ureostomy, ileostomy, tracheostomy care, tracheal suctioning, respiratory care, foot care, and prostheses
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Follow policies and procedures to convey the resident's personal funds to the appropriate party responsible after the resident's death
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly hold, secure and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Fire-resistant room wall surfaces
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Other fire safety features required by fire safety codes
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, and receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder function
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Have enough outside ventilation via a window or mechanical ventilation, or both
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Properly located and lighted Exit signs
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Portable fire extinguishers
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
No-smoking signs where oxygen is used
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Some
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Allow the resident the right to participate in the planning or revision of the resident's care plan
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, and receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder function
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that residents with reduced range of motion get proper treatment and services to increase range of motion
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Safely provide drugs and other similar products available, which are needed every day and in emergencies, by a licensed pharmacist
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
At least once a month, have a licensed pharmacist review each resident's medication(s) and report any irregularities to the attending doctor
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Smoke barrier doors that can resist smoke for at least 20 minutes
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
1) Make sure that each resident's drug regimen is free from unnecessary drugs; 2) Each resident's entire drug/medication is managed and monitored to achieve highest well being
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Keep all essential equipment working safely
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure there is a pest control program to prevent/deal with mice, insects, or other pests
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Operate and provide services according to Federal, State, and local laws and professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few

Quality Measures

Percent of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased

Here:	32.8%
Maryland:	20.0%

Percent of long-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

This Nursing Home:	12.6%
State:	6.2%

Percent of long-stay high-risk residents with pressure ulcers

Here:	13.1%
Maryland:	7.7%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

Here:	14.8%
State:	6.0%

Percent of long-stay residents who have had a catheter inserted and left in their bladder

Here:	3.2%
State:	3.1%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

This Nursing Home:	3.4%
Maryland:	6.0%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

Here:	5.5%
State:	4.3%

Percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury

Here:	3.3%
State:	2.7%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

This Nursing Home:	100.0%
Maryland:	95.1%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	98.9%
State:	95.2%

Percent of short-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

Here:	12.5%
State:	16.5%

Percent of short-stay residents with Pressure ulcers that are new or worsened

Here:	2.9%
State:	1.3%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

Here:	94.9%
Maryland:	86.6%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	93.4%
State:	85.7%

Percent of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication

Here:	1.4%
State:	2.8%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

This Nursing Home:	23.2%
Maryland:	19.2%

TRANSITIONS HEALTHCARE AT SYKESVILLE - SYKESVILLE, MD

Staff Information

Complaint Deficiency

Quality Measures

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