Nursing home
Althea Woodland Nursing Home
1000 Daleview Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20901 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · 50 certified beds
Althea Woodland Nursing Home is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Silver Spring, Maryland. CMS rates it 4 out of 5 stars overall (2/5 for staffing, 4/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.84 hours per resident per day, below the Maryland average of 3.87. Its most recent inspection on Apr 25, 2025 cited 13 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Althea Woodland Nursing Home compares
This facility vs. the Maryland and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Maryland avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.84 | 3.87 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.44 | 0.81 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.36 | 2.15 | 2.34 | above avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | —% | 40.6% | 46.4% | — |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 13.0 | 18.9 | 9.5 | below avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
What inspectors found at Althea Woodland Nursing Home
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.
Environmental Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
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.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Apr 25, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 1000 Daleview Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20901 - CMS certification #
- 215228
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 50
- Avg residents/day
- 45.8
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1991-06-01
- Setting
- Urban
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Location and nearby
Explore the area around Althea Woodland Nursing Home using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Respite stays, nurse 24 hours a day
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2005
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Althea Woodland Nursing Home says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
Federal wage and hour cases
The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.
- Findings for Jul 1, 2005 to Jun 25, 2007. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $2,996 owed to 5 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Althea Woodland, Inc. Case 1457568.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Adventist Healthcare White Oak Medical Center, Silver Spring. 4.4 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars. Location approximate.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Adelphi Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Adelphi. 0.9 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Holy Cross Home Care And Hospice, Silver Spring. 1.7 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Langley Park Pharmacy and Medical Supplies. 1.2 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 20901 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Ara - Adelphi, Adelphi, 0.9 miles away, straight line
Davita Takoma Park Dialysis, Hyattsville, 1.7 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Davita Silver Spring Dialysis, Silver Spring, 2.3 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 8 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 20901.
Holy Cross Home Care And Hospice, office in Silver Spring, 1.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Capital Caring, office in Greenbelt, 5.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 2 of 5 stars)
Heartland Hospice (Beltsville), office in Beltsville, 5.7 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 1 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Access Health LLC, Hyattsville. 2.8 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard risk
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Flood zone
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively low. By hazard: hurricane relatively low, inland flooding relatively low, wildfire very low, tornado relatively low, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake relatively low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
What we checked
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, Licensure and Regulatory Services kitchen inspections | Oct 15, 2026 | No kitchen matched |
| Hurricane evacuation zone maps | Not in a mapped zone | |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here very low |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Althea Woodland Nursing Home a good nursing home?
CMS gives Althea Woodland Nursing Home an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars, including 2/5 for staffing and 4/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Althea Woodland Nursing Home staffed?
Althea Woodland Nursing Home reports 3.84 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Maryland average of 3.87.
Has Althea Woodland Nursing Home had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 13 deficiencies.
How many beds does Althea Woodland Nursing Home have?
Althea Woodland Nursing Home is certified for 50 beds.