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 was awarded its next highest category grade in the area of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Our short-term care ratings are probably more critical for residents needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. We weighed the levels of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we assessed is long-term care. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in this area. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes provide. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated only 79.84496 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.