Harper Mills

Harper Mills is in Beckley, West Virginia. The city has a population of 33,590 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of B, which is a good grade. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's strong profile is its nursing rating. Nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. In calculating our nursing scores, we analyze both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is among the highest figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We were very impressed by both of these figures. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this place also performed well in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average.

This facility was awarded strong marks in the area of short-term care as well. Indeed, we awarded it one of our most favorable grades in that category with a area of A-. Short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. When we assessed this place's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most facilities. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. It was above average in this area with 52.9 percent of its patients returning home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in inspections, with a B in that category. It outperformed most facilities in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are quite insignificant. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

The final category we looked at is long-term care. For this category, we gave this facility a C. Our long-term care grades are more important for folks in need of more traditional assistance related to personal care. In addition to providing very solid levels of nurse staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 95.5595 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.99 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.