Dawn View Center

With an address in Fort Ashby, West Virginia, Dawn View Center is the lone option we identified in this area. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A score in this range requires some solid scores. Based on our analysis, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. This nursing home did not meet our expectations in all of our categories, but it did not receive any terrible grades either. More information about these categories can be found below.

We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best grades in that category with an A. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

We also want to note that this facility was awarded a great long-term care score. In fact, we gave it one of our most favorable scores in this category with a score of A-. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed was its hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.07 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was middle of the road due to it having more complicated patients.

This nursing home's second lowest category was short-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that area. This is a relatively poor score. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Given its poor grade, we weren't stunned to find that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist per resident than the average facility. The final datapoint we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area, with just 41.4 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below the national average.

The last category we assessed is nursing, was this nursing home's worst area. We awarded this nursing home a D in this category. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averaged just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is well below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.