Braxton Health Care Center
859 Days Drive, Sutton WV 26601 · (304) 765-2861 · 90.92% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Braxton Health Care Center is a small nursing home located in Sutton, West Virginia. Featuring an overall score of B, this appears to be a good facility. Based on our analysis, this facility has quite a bit going for it. You also may want to review this facility's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 65 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
In addition to its strong overall score, we gave this facility a grade of A for our long-term care grade. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.095436 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.56 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also excelled in inspections. In fact, we gave it an A for that category. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. Our nursing score assesses many datapoints, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the last category we scored. For this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of just D. In forming these short-term care grades, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents that were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 36.1 percent of its residents returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Braxton Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients which suffered from pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be skewed for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for several medical conditions, such as dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients which were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Many in the industry believe that mobility is vital to patients mental and physical health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better