Dunbar Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of C. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but fortunately none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This tells you it dodged the more serious classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Sadly, this nursing home's next highest score was long-term care. As it turns out, with a grade of D in this category, it still fared somewhat badly. If you are looking for anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 97.82082 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

Unfortunately, this facility's third highest category was short-term care. However, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed somewhat badly. In our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Not surprisingly, we learned that this place provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical nursing home. The last item we looked at in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 5.1 percent of its residents returning home.

Moving on to our fourth area, this facility didn't perform very well in this area either. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is about as bad as it gets. Nursing ratings are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.