Best Nursing Homes In Maryland: 2022 Ratings Released

MARYLAND— The last two years have proved a challenging time for nursing homes in Maryland. While many facilities continue to face an ongoing battle against the coronavirus, families in Maryland are still likely to turn to nursing homes to provide short- or long-term care for their loved ones.

One in 10 Americans over the age of 85 is a nursing home resident, according to U.S. News & World Report, which released its 2021-22 list of Best Nursing Homes on Tuesday. Nearly one-third of older Americans spend time in a nursing home during their final months of life.

In order to help families choose the right nursing home, U.S. News rated more than 15,000 nursing facilities providing care to 1.1 million people in the United States.

This year’s list rated 226 facilities in Maryland.

To compile rankings, U.S. News analyzed available public data through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Researchers looked at several things, including COVID-19 vaccination requirements for residents and staff, flu and pneumonia vaccination rates, and infection control violations listed on the resident safety summary.

A nursing facility’s COVID-19 vaccination rate played a key role in its overall ranking, according to U.S. News. Homes with a staff vaccination rate below 75 percent were not considered leading facilities. Because of this, a significant percentage of short-term and long-term care programs that would have otherwise qualified as “high-performing'' were downgraded at the time of the list’s publication.

Ratings were generated based on data publicly available as of July 2021, with additional COVID-19 vaccination data publicly available as of October 2021.

More on the methodology used to compile this year’s list of best nursing homes can be found here.

Each facility was then rated on quality of long- and short-term care. Ratings range from high-performing to below average. Facilities were also assigned an overall rating ranging from high-performing to below average.

Out of more than 13,100 nursing homes rated for long-term care, 1,063 were designated as high-performing.

Here are the 38 nursing homes in Maryland that were rated as high-performing:

• Asbury Solomons; Solomons
• Autumn Ridge - North Oaks; Pikesville
• Bayleigh Chase; Easton
• Baywoods of Annapolis; Annapolis (short-term only)
• Bedford Court Healthcare Center; Silver Spring, MD
• Brighton Garden Tuckerman Lane; North Bethesda
• Broadmead; Cockeysville
• Brooke Grove Rehabilitation & Nursing Center; Sandy Spring
• Buckingham's Choice; Adamstown
• Carriage Hill Bethesda; Bethesda
• Charlestown; Catonsville
• Chestnut Green Health Center - Blakehurst; Towson
• Collington Episcopal Life Care; Mitchellville
• Complete Care; Severna Park
• Fairhaven, Sykesville
• Future Care Chesapeake; Arnold
• Garrett County Sub-Acute Unit; Oakland (short-term only)
• Glen Meadows Retirement Community; Glen Arm
• Greater Baltimore Medical Center Sub-Acute Unit; Towson (short-term only)
• Hillhaven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; Adelphi
• Homewood at Crumland Farm; Frederick
• Homewood at Williamsport; Williamsport
• Ingleside at King Farm; Rockville (short-term only)
• Largo Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; Glenarden (short-term only)
• Little Sisters of the Poor - Baltimore; Baltimore (long-term care only)
• Lorien Bulle Rock; Havre de Grace
• Lorien Nursing & Rehabilitation Center; Bel Air
• ManorCare Health Services; Potomac
• Manor Care Health Services; Wheaton (short-term only)
• Maplewood Park Place; Bethesda
• Northwest Hospital Center Sub-Acute Unit; Randallstown (short-term only)
• Riderwood Village; Silver Spring
• Sagepoint Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; La Plata
• St. Joseph's Nursing Home; Catonsville (long-term only)
• The Lutheran Village at Miller's Grant; Ellicott City (short-term only)
• Transitional Care Services at Mercy Medical Center; Baltimore (short-term only)
• Villa Rosa Nursing and Rehabilitation; Mitchellville
• Wilson Health Care Center; Gaithersburg

This year, California has the highest number of the top-ranked nursing homes on the list. In all, 201 nursing homes in California received a high-performing rating in short-term rehabilitation, and 94 facilities were designated high-performing in long-term care.

New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania follow California for the highest number of top-ranked nursing homes. Florida and Illinois fell from among the top states this year.

In addition to helping families find the best nursing home for their loved one, U.S. News published pieces on understanding vaccine mandates in nursing homes, evaluating a nursing home’s disaster plan and where your money goes when paying for a nursing home.

View this year’s full list of Best Nursing Homes here.

— By Megan VerHelst and Elizabeth Janney