Dunbar Health & Rehab Center

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to draw your attention to its excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home excelled in the category of nursing, where it earned an D. Our nursing score is mostly based on a facility's nurse staffing. With a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This place performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

We gave this nursing home just a D for our short-term care rating. This is not an impressive grade. Short-term care grades are typically employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Switching gears to the last category, we gave this facility a grade of D for the area of long-term care. This is the nursing home's worst category rating. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities provide. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated just 80.14706 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.