Clay Health Care Center is a small nursing home located in Ivydale, West Virginia. This is a lower end nursing home, with an overall grade of D. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Ivydale. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.
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Clay Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't grade this nursing home favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it received an A+. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid facilities with too many severe deficiencies flagged. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. When determining our nursing grades, we factor in both nursing hours and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This statistic is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This place fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.
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Short-term Care Quality
As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its short-term care grade, which is not a very good score. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to our last category, this nursing home really didn't fare well in this area either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.342545 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Clay Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Clay Health Care Center, 12.69% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Clay Health Care Center, 3.31% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be a measure of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Clay Health Care Center, 7.87% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often the result of worse hygiene protocols. Closer supervision can reduce the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Clay Health Care Center, 15.72% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many patients, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Clay Health Care Center, 27.88% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Clay Health Care Center, 0.58% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents showing symptoms of depression. High levels of depression may be an indicator worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Clay Health Care Center, 98.26% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Clay Health Care Center, 13.41% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Clay Health Care Center, 23.6% of Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who retained mobility levels. Some argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In Clay Health Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Clay Health Care Center, 23.6% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Clay Health Care Center, 20.11% of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Clay Health Care Center, 50.55% of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of independence with ADL's generally correlates with better rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Braxton County Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 16.9 miles away100 Hoylman Drive Gassaway West Virginia 26624Voluntary non-profit - Private(304) 364-5156