Dunbar Village Terrace

With an address in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, Dunbar Village Terrace is the sole nursing home located in the area. It looks like this nursing home is ranked among the most elite facilities we assessed. It received one of the top scores we offer. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the nation. As you will see below, this facility also performed well in our category scores. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered on top of this facility's above average nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the elderly. The last datapoint we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.52 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A+. This was one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category grades. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Building on its high-end assessment, this nursing home also was awarded an excellent short-term care score, with a grade of A. Short-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Mississippi in this area with 67.1 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

The fourth area we looked at is nursing, where this facility received a B+. This finished off an elite profile. Few nursing homes received a B+ or higher in in each area we assessed. In calculating our nursing grades, we analyze both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the more impressive figures we found. Finally, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.