Parkersburg Center

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.