Medstar National Rehabilitation Hospital

• 65.22% of its patients returned home or to the community: no different than the national rate, as CMS compares it (Oct 1, 2023 to Sep 30, 2025).
• Compared by CMS: potentially preventable readmissions within 30 days after discharge, no different than the national rate (9.06%); potentially preventable readmissions during the stay, no different than the national rate (4.02%); catheter urinary tract infections (CAUTI), no different than the national benchmark (standardized infection ratio 0.658); C. diff infections, better than the national benchmark (standardized infection ratio 0.453).
• As CMS gives them: patients with one or more falls with major injury, 0%; patients with new or worsened pressure ulcers or injuries, 0.2%; patients at or above an expected ability to care for themselves and move around at discharge, 57.6%; Medicare spending per patient (1 is the national median), 0.98.

• Medicare-certified inpatient rehabilitation facility since Feb 25, 1986.
• Ownership: non-profit.
• It is accredited by The Joint Commission, whose surveys stand in for the state’s routine inspections.
• No inspection on record in the last three years to show whether it met Medicare’s rules for hospitals.
• Non-profit.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for these facilities.
• No complaint investigation on record in the last three years.

• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for these facilities.
• 96.2% of its health care workers got a flu shot (Oct 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025).

• National Rehabilitation Hospital, Inc. owns 100% directly since Feb 1, 1999.
• Medstar Health, Inc. runs it.
• 20 owners or officers are people: Ellen Black (corporate officer, 0%); Ellen Black (managing employee (on the payroll), 0%); Dawn Sweeney (corporate officer, 0%); Kenneth A Samet (corporate director); Stephen Caldeira (corporate director, 0%); Cristina Aragona (corporate director); Cristina Aragona (managing employee (on the payroll)); Edward B Healton (corporate director, 0%); James Dinegar (corporate director, 0%); Renie Freedman (corporate director, 0%); Mark W Meginnis (corporate officer, 0%); Mark W Meginnis (managing employee (on the payroll), 0%); Melvin Hall (corporate director, 0%); Cosette O Jamieson (corporate director, 0%); Susan R O’mara (corporate director, 0%); Susan R O’mara (managing employee (on the payroll), 0%); John Rockwood (corporate director); John Rockwood (managing employee (on the payroll)); John Rockwood (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Thene Martin (corporate director, 0%).
• CMS’s Provider of Services file records no change of ownership.
• No private-equity firm among the owners CMS lists.
• No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.

• Of the 2 inpatient rehabilitation facilities CMS lists in District of Columbia, 2 have CMS’s comparison of their discharges to the community with the national rate: 2 no different than the national rate.
• CMS rates this one no different than the national rate for returning patients to the community.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for inpatient rehabilitation facilities or long-term care hospitals, so none are shown.
• Only complaints that led to a citation appear; complaints that didn’t aren’t published.
• Many of these facilities are accredited by a private organisation (The Joint Commission, DNV and others) whose routine inspections stand in for the state’s; those reports aren’t public, and QCOR holds only the state’s surveys: no inspection on record here doesn’t mean none took place.
• QCOR says its hospital inspection data are complete only through September 17, 2026, while it moves to a new system.
• CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for these facilities.

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility - General Information (7t8x-u3ir).

  Released Sep 23, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility - Provider Data (v9e4-nwhh).

  Released Sep 23, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Provider of Services File - Hospital & Non-Hospital Facilities (Hospital_and_other.DATA.Q3_2026.csv).

  Released Oct 14, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QCOR Hospital 2567 statements of deficiencies (Hospital_2567s_2010_to_2026YTD.xlsx).

  Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital All Owners (Hospital_All_Owners_2026.09.29.csv).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital Enrollments (Hospital_Enrollments_2026.09.29.csv).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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