Dunbar Health & Rehab Center

Dunbar Health & Rehab Center is in Dayton, Ohio. This city is among the largest metropolitan areas in the nation with has a total of 479,994 people. Our grading system was not favorable to this facility, as it received an overall rating of F. Fortunately, if you aren't impressed with this facility, there are countless other options available in this city. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

While this place's overall score was terrible, it performed well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that area, which is one of our better scores. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that have too many severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility also didn't rate too badly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of C for that category, which happens to be among its more respectable scores. In our short-term care category, we strive to craft a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that it performed better than most facilities in this area with 55.9 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received an F for its nursing grade. The nursing grade includes a host of subcategories. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its low nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.

The last area we rated is long-term care, where this nursing home received a very poor score in this category as well. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is definitely a major concern. Facilities that do not fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 54.000004 percent of its patients. This is significantly below what we expected. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.