Ohio Valley Health Care

Ohio Valley Health Care is a small nursing home located in Parkersburg, West Virginia. It looks like this is a very respectable facility. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a respectable rating. This facility turned out to be one of the better facilities in Parkersburg. This place was stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any weak links in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to earning a great overall rating, this facility performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent inspections. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our best grades. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home received 9 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our nursing score is based on numerous datapoints. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This facility fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care.

This nursing home's third most favorable area is long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinates 99.061035 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.16 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

The last area we assessed is short-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in that category. In our short-term care score, we seek to craft a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 32.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.