Parkersburg Center
1716 Gihon Road, Parkersburg WV 26101 · (304) 485-5511 · 96.36% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Parkersburg Center is a facility located in Parkersburg, West Virginia, a city with a population of 46,768 people. Our scoring system was not very kind to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall score of F. Parkersburg received a city grade of C, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. Finally, long-term care was the lone shining light in this nursing home's profile. We provide more information on this category below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 66 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
Even though we gave this nursing home a rock bottom overall score, we gave it a B+ for our long-term care rating. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 92.488266 percent of its patients. This is a bit below what we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.48 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
We gave this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care score and that actually turned out to be its second most favorable category. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 40.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection rating. We would scrutinize the severity of the deficiencies. This particular nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, we would like to point out that this facility was assessed large government fines of over $100,000. This often indicates that a bad track record has been an issue for more than one year.
Nurse Quality
The final category we assessed is nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is an abysmal grade. The nursing score considers several subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the quantity of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility averaged just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident each day. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in both of these data points. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Parkersburg Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better