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Friends Assisted Living
17350 Quaker Lane, Sandy Spring, MD 20860
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Friends Assisted Living Description
Friends House is a warm, welcoming community where senior adults are esteemed for their experience and wisdom. A nonprofit organization founded in the 1960s on the Quaker values of equality, integrity and simplicity, Friends House is a multicultural and economically inclusive community.
At every level of care — Residential Living, Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing — we provide a caring, secure environment that nurtures the autonomy, independence and personal growth of each individual.
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Care Types at Community
This community offers the following types of care
Assisted Living
Assisted living offers a supportive community environment with personalized care and assistance for seniors who value their independence but need help with daily activities.
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Nursing Home
Nursing Homes provide a nurturing environment offering round-the-clock care, personalized support, and community activities for seniors needing assistance with daily living.
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Review Summary
The following is an AI generated summary of the reviews of the community from across the web.
Positive Reviews:
- One of the finest facilities with everything needed to exist, outstanding restaurant facilities, and prompt maintenance.
- Exceptional care provided, especially for terminal illness, keeping residents engaged and clean.
- Complete renovation underway, with consistently thoughtful and kind staff across different stages of care.
- Excellent care for dementia, with patient, professional, and caring staff. High quality care maintained even through labor shortages.
- Rehabilitation services helped a resident learn to walk again, with wonderful staff making a significant positive impact.
- Mixed experiences but noted some genuinely caring staff, particularly in OT and PT, who went above and beyond to assist.
Negative Reviews:
- Administration punished a resident for seeking healthy activities outdoors, leading to unjustified restrictions and eventual eviction.
- Incompetence at administrative levels, with unreturned calls and lack of proper communication, leading to several issues including medication errors.
- Contractual obligations not honored, leading to a resident's premature death due to complications arising from delayed transition to assisted living.
- Presence of mice, bugs, and snakes, along with poor care for residents without family advocacy.
- Negative experience with staff not providing necessary assistance and communication issues, though some staff were helpful.
- Allegations of physical abuse by an employee and refusal of care, with issues in communication and transportation arrangements for medical appointments.
Mixed Reviews:
- Some reviewers had mixed experiences, noting caring individuals on the floor but facing challenges with administrative competence and communication.
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Information from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Nursing Home Ratings
Overall rating: 5
Health inspection rating: 5
Staffing rating: 4
Quality measure rating: 4
Long-term quality measure rating:
4
Short-term quality measure rating:
4
Nursing Home Overview
Participation
date: Jan. 1, 1990
Ownership type: Non Profit
Provider
type: Medicare and Medicaid
Nursing home capacity: 82
Total current residents: 60
Facility is located in a hospital: No
Automatic sprinkler system: Yes
Resident and family council: Resident
Facility Incident, Complaints and Fines
Number of
facility
incidents: 0
Number of
substantiated complaints: 0
Number of payment denials: 0
Number of fines: 0
Total cost of fines: $0
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services give each Nursing Home a Star Rating from 1-5 with 5 being the highest.
The graph below shows information from this Nursing Home as well as State and National averages over time.
Use the dropdown below to view each data pointThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gather information about the number of hours of care provided on average to each resident each day by staff as well as the turnover of staff.
The graph below shows information from this Nursing Home as well as State and National averages over time.
Use the dropdown below to view each data pointThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services tracks information around emergency department and hospital visits for residents of Nursing Homes.
The graph below shows information from this Nursing Home as well as State and National averages over time.
Use the dropdown below to view each data pointThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services tracks information around quality measures for residents of Nursing Homes.
The graph below shows information from this Nursing Home as well as State and National averages over time.
Use the dropdown below to view each data pointThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services tracks information around COVID-19 vaccination rates of Nursing Home residents and staff members.
The graph below shows information from this Nursing Home as well as State and National averages over time.
Use the dropdown below to view each data pointHealth and Fire Safety Deficiencies
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid report health and fire safety deficiencies. Some of these deficiencies are more severe than others. The following table shows different levels of severity.
| Scope | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Severity of Deficiency | Isolated | Pattern | Widespread |
| Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety | J | K | L |
| Actual harm that is not immediate jeopardy | G | H | I |
| No actual harm with potential for more than minimal harm that is not immediate jeopardy | D | E | F |
| No actual harm with potential for minimal harm | A | B | C |
Fire Safety Deficiencies
| Survey Date | Correction Date | Letter | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-18 | 2021-06-30 | D | Smoke Deficiencies | Construct fire resistant interior walls. |
| 2021-05-18 | 2021-06-30 | C | Smoke Deficiencies | Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. |
| 2021-05-18 | 2021-06-30 | B | Smoke Deficiencies | Properly select, install, inspect, or maintain portable fire extinguishes. |
| 2021-05-18 | 2021-06-30 | D | Gas, Vacuum, and Electrical Systems Deficiencies | Meet requirements for the use of electrical equipment. |
| 2021-05-18 | 2021-06-30 | B | Gas, Vacuum, and Electrical Systems Deficiencies | Have proper medical gas storage and administration areas. |
| 2019-11-21 | 2019-12-31 | B | Egress Deficiencies | Install emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours. |
| 2019-11-21 | 2019-12-31 | C | Smoke Deficiencies | Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. |
| 2019-11-21 | 2019-12-31 | D | Gas, Vacuum, and Electrical Systems Deficiencies | Meet requirements for the installation and maintenance of electrical systems. |
| 2019-11-21 | 2019-12-31 | C | Gas, Vacuum, and Electrical Systems Deficiencies | Have proper medical gas storage and administration areas. |
| 2018-10-16 | 2018-11-21 | D | Gas, Vacuum, and Electrical Systems Deficiencies | Meet requirements for the installation and maintenance of electrical systems. |
Health Safety Deficiencies
| Survey Date | Correction Date | Letter | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-20 | 2021-07-03 | D | Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies | Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted |
| 2021-05-20 | 2021-07-03 | D | Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies | Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. |
| 2021-05-20 | 2021-07-03 | B | Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies | Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training. |
| 2019-11-21 | 2020-01-15 | B | Resident Rights Deficiencies | Give the resident's representative the ability to exercise the resident's rights. |
| 2019-11-21 | 2020-01-15 | B | Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies | Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. |
| 2019-11-21 | 2020-01-15 | D | Pharmacy Service Deficiencies | Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited. |
| 2019-11-21 | 2020-01-15 | E | Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies | Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. |
| 2018-10-10 | 2018-11-21 | D | Resident Rights Deficiencies | Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive. |
| 2018-10-10 | 2018-11-21 | D | Resident Rights Deficiencies | Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. |
| 2018-10-10 | 2018-11-21 | B | Resident Rights Deficiencies | Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights. |
| 2018-10-10 | 2018-11-21 | B | Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies | Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted |
| 2018-10-10 | 2018-11-21 | D | Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies | Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. |
| 2018-10-10 | 2018-11-21 | D | Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. |
What is in the Neighborhood
- The closest city is Ashton-Sandy Spring which is 1.4 miles away and has a population of 5,628 (very small town).
- The average income is $185,223, which is very high compared to other zip codes.
- Weather
- High Temperature: 83
- Low Temperature: 36
- Average Temperature: 60.1
- Day Breakdown: The area gets 159 days of rain, 19 days of snow and 186 days of sun
- Precipitation: 2.5 inches a year
- The average life expectancy in zip code is 83.01 years old, which is very high compared to other zip codes.
- Air Quality: Good Days 128.0, Moderate Days 47.0, Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups Days 1.0, Unhealthy Days 0.0, Very Unhealthy Days 0.0, Hazardous Days 0.0
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Supermarkets
Harris Teeter
2.0 miles awaySafeway
2.0 miles awayGiant Food
2.1 miles awayALDI
3.5 miles awayGiant
4.6 miles awayNone Found
Bus Stations
Georgia Avenue Park & Ride
3.0 miles awayMetro Bus
4.7 miles awayC
5.5 miles awayB
5.5 miles awayD
5.5 miles awayBanks
Sandy Spring Bank
1.1 miles awayPNC Bank
2.0 miles awayM&T Bank
2.0 miles awayCapital One
2.0 miles awayBank of America
2.1 miles awayHospitals
Medstar Montgomery Medical Center
1.6 miles awayAdventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center
7.2 miles awayKaiser Permanente
7.8 miles awayLaurel Regional Hospital
8.5 miles awayHoly Cross Hospital
8.6 miles awayPharmacies
CVS Pharmacy
1.1 miles awayRite Aid
4.8 miles awayCVS
5.5 miles awayWalgreens
6.7 miles awayGlobal Health Pharmacy
7.4 miles awayDentists
Dynamic Healthcare
4.7 miles awayRock Creek Dental Center
5.5 miles awayParmar Family & Cosmetic Dentistry
6.1 miles awayFresh Dental Group
6.5 miles awayAshton Family Dentistry
7.5 miles awayParks
Northwest Branch Stream Valley Park
0.1 miles awaySandy Spring
0.3 miles awayWoodlawn Manor Cultural Park
0.7 miles awayTimberland Estates
1.3 miles awayNorthwest Branch Recreational Park
1.4 miles awayPlaces of Worship
Crossover Church
13.6 miles awayCentral Presbyterian Church
14.6 miles awayConcordia United Church of Christ and Rectory
16.7 miles awayShopping
Seminary Place Shopping Center
9.0 miles awayRockshire Village Center
9.3 miles awayLakeforest Mall
9.4 miles awayEllsworth Place
9.9 miles awayThe Mall in Columbia
10.3 miles awayCulture
Olney Theatre
0.9 miles awayRoundhouse Theater Company
6.4 miles awayF. Scott FItzgeral Theater
6.6 miles awayRobert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center
7.5 miles awayTheater
8.4 miles awayRestaurants
Olney Ale House
0.8 miles awayMee Shane Restaurant
1.0 miles awayEl Andariego
1.1 miles awayDempsey's
1.1 miles awaySol Azteca
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