Dunbar Center
501 Caldwell Lane, Dunbar WV 25064 · (304) 744-4761 · 93.41% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Dunbar Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Dunbar, West Virginia. This nursing home received an extremely poor overall rating based on the data we assessed. 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 Dunbar. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was short-term care, which is discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Partnership
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our short-term care rating. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. The facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home performed better in this statistic. We found that it fared better than most nursing homes in this area with 54.6 percent of its patients returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the area of long-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in that category. Sadly, this proved to be its second best grade. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home vaccinated 96.68367 percent of its patients, which is a very solid figure. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.91 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this place didn't fare quite as well.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received very weak inspections in recent years, causing us to give them an F for inspections. An F in this category is usually a sign that there were red flags on the nursing home's inspections. For nursing homes with poor inspection grades, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines in recent years amounting to more than $100,000. This often means that a nursing home's bad performance spanned several years.
Nurse Quality
The next area we graded is nursing. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is an abysmal score. Our nursing score is mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided only 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in both of these statistics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Dunbar Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents which developed pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that sustained a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly used to treat residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating. Many argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better