Eastbrook Center

Eastbrook Center is a large nursing home located in Charleston, West Virginia. This is a subpar facility, with an overall grade of D. This isn't the worse nursing home we found, but we'd still struggle to recommend it. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. We discuss short-term care in the next section.

Although we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A- for our short-term care rating. With our short-term care grade, we seek to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. This place fared as well as just about any nursing home in West Virginia in this area with 56.7 percent of its residents returning home.

Surprisingly, this facility actually received an impressive nursing grade this year as well. We gave it a grade of B in this category. Our nursing score considers many factors. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this nursing home's inspection grades where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We suggest you scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received 11 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

The last category we assessed is long-term care, in which this facility received an abysmal score in this category also. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home also was not as bad as we expected at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Although it had 2.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not bad since it had some more complex patients.