Lorien Health Systems Mt Airy

    705 Midway Ave, Mount Airy, MD 21771
    • Assisted Living
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.97·(36)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      4.5
    • Staff

      4.4
    • Meals

      3.0
    • Amenities

      5.0
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, attentive nursing staff
    • Responsive, hands-on administrative leadership
    • Smooth and stress-reducing admission process
    • Strong rehabilitation and respiratory-therapy services
    • Engaging, diverse activities program with a dedicated director
    • Pleasant dining and enjoyable meal offerings
    • Clean, well-maintained facility and common areas
    • Family-like, home-like atmosphere
    • Supportive hospice and respite-care coordination
    • Friendly and helpful front-desk and ancillary staff
    • Transportation and outing support (bus services)
    • Thorough housekeeping and room upkeep

    Cons

    • Inconsistent medication-management controls
    • Variable responsiveness to prospective inquiries and tours
    • Occasional unprofessional staff conduct and communication tone
    • Inconsistent dining-service continuity and coordination
    • Gaps in cross-department staff coordination
    • Therapy-animal sanitation and infection-control gaps
    • Rigid admission contract and financial-policy practices
    • Intermittent sanitation concerns in some shared spaces

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: The facility is described predominantly as a well-maintained, home-like rehabilitation and long-term care setting with a strong emphasis on attentive, compassionate staff and active programming. Many families highlight positive hands-on leadership, smooth admissions for most referrals, reliable rehab services (including respiratory therapy), and a calendar of engaging activities that contributes to residents' social and emotional well-being.

    Care and staff: Nursing, therapy, and ancillary staff receive frequent praise for being caring, attentive, and responsive. Reviewers point to proactive administrators and an activities director who fosters a family-like environment. The facility's coordination with hospice and respite services and its respiratory-therapy capability are noted as strengths for residents with complex needs. However, several reviewers described serious operational concerns—most importantly lapses in medication administration and delayed responsiveness on occasion. There are also isolated concerns about staff tone and conduct. These observations suggest generally strong day-to-day caregiving but with intermittent gaps that prospective families should clarify (for example, medication-safety protocols, shift coverage, and escalation procedures).

    Dining and activities: Dining is frequently described positively, with enjoyable meals and supportive dining staff. The activities program is a clear asset: reviewers emphasize variety, frequent events, outings, and a dedicated activities director who engages residents. Therapy-animal visits are part of programming and are appreciated by many, though some reviewers raised sanitation concerns related to animal visits and shared spaces. A few comments also pointed to occasional interruptions in meal-service coordination, indicating some variability in dining continuity.

    Facilities and management: The physical environment is consistently described as clean, attractive, and well-appointed — features such as a wraparound porch, garden room, and movie room are cited. Housekeeping and room upkeep receive affirmative remarks. Administrative responsiveness is often singled out as a positive, with many families finding admissions and transfers to be stress-reducing. At the same time, there are reports of inconsistent responsiveness to outside inquiries and tour requests, and some reviewers cited rigid admission contract or financial-policy practices (including minimum-stay expectations and financial demands) that may be problematic for certain families.

    Notable patterns and practical guidance: The dominant pattern is high satisfaction driven by staff attentiveness, therapy strengths, and active programming. Counterbalancing that are a set of operational concerns that recur across reviews: medication-management controls, intermittent cross-department coordination, communication tone, dining-service continuity, and sanitation protocols related to therapy animals and some shared spaces. Prospective residents and families would benefit from focused questions during a tour or intake conversation: ask to see medication-safety procedures, staffing and handoff practices, animal-visit infection-control policies, sample menus and dining schedules, and the facility's admission contract and financial terms. An in-person visit and conversations with current residents or families will be useful to confirm consistency of the positive practices described and to assess how the facility addresses the occasional operational gaps identified.

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    Medicare Ratings

    5·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Lorien Health Systems Mt Airy is located at 705 Midway Ave, Mount Airy, MD, 21771.

    About Lorien Health Systems Mt Airy

    Lorien Health Systems Mt Airy sits as a nursing home and skilled nursing facility, serving about 54 people each day with a mix of personal care and medical services, and the place holds 62 certified beds, so it's not a huge place but not tiny either, and you find the building inside a bigger Continuing Care Retirement Community, which means folks could move between independent living, assisted living, and memory care if their needs change. The staff offers all sorts of help like bathing, dressing, taking medicine, and even transfer help for folks who need it, with English-speaking staff on hand day and night, and there's a 24-hour call system for emergencies. Someone needing more support gets 24-hour nursing coverage, with nurse and aide hours above the state average, but even so, the nurse turnover rate is higher than usual at 46.7 percent, which can mean you see new faces now and then, and inspection reports have listed 49 different deficiencies, including some around feeding tube management, infection control, and care planning, along with a few notes about possible issues with abuse and neglect, though inspectors didn't find actual harm at their visits.

    There's always something scheduled with daily activities meant to keep folks engaged-movie nights, music programs, arts and crafts, outings, and even resident-run events if someone wants to get involved, so it doesn't feel like a place where you just sit all day, and many people join the fitness programs, gardening, or weekly exercise classes, with a gym and walking paths outdoors, as well as a therapy room for those needing rehab. Lorien Health Systems Mt Airy brings in a team including registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, CNAs, social workers, dieticians, pharmacists, and even visiting doctors, dentists, podiatrists, and audiologists. They cover rehabilitation including speech, physical, and occupational therapy, wound care, stroke recovery, cardiac care, IV antibiotics, pain management, and even ventilator and tracheotomy support for residents with more medical needs. Home health, respite care, adult day service, hospice, and even short-term stays are all covered, as are Medicaid and Medicare payments.

    Apartments here come furnished with comforts like private bathrooms, cable TV, kitchenettes, telephones, air conditioning, and high-speed Wi-Fi, and there's emergency pendants in case someone needs help quickly. Most things you'd want are on site, including a movie theater, library, game room, hair salon, business center, community garden, outdoor courtyard, and a fitness area. Meals happen in a restaurant-style dining room, and regular services include weekly housekeeping, bed linen service, laundry, dry cleaning, and local transportation to appointments. Folks pay starting around $5,940 a month for assisted living apartments, with the pricing depending on the level of care.

    Outpatient and inpatient rehab services happen on-site, as do therapy programs, so someone recovering from an illness or injury can get help without leaving the community. Specialists offer treatments like pain management, nutritional counseling, and more, and hospice services are also available for end-of-life support. The community is managed by Maryland Health Enterprises, Inc., owned by several individuals including Michele Collison, Rosemary Juras, Linda Licata, John Mangione, Nicholas Mangione, Samuel Mangione, Frances O'Keefe, and Peter Mangione, all having equal stakes, and the larger Lorien Health Services network runs operations across the area.

    Some things aren't perfect at Lorien Health Systems Mt Airy, and reports have shown areas where care needs improvement, so families may want to check the latest inspection reports and talk with staff. Still, the facility aims to mix safety, support, activity, and some independence for older adults, with a range of care that covers most health, personal, and daily living needs, so people can settle in the way that works best for them.

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    The full address for this community is 705 Midway Ave, Mount Airy, MD 21771.

    No, Lorien Health Systems Mt Airy does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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