Sundale Nursing Home is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Morgantown, West Virginia. This is not a bad nursing home with a C overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Morgantown. Based on all of the relevant data, there are certainly much worse places out there. You should also take a look at this nursing home's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.
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Sundale Nursing Home
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home really fared well in the area of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it an impressive grade of A for that area. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.6732 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to avoid negative health outcomes for the aged 65 and up population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed as well in this area. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility ended up receiving a rock-bottom grade in our short-term care category. It received a lowly F in this category. Our short-term care scores are important for individuals looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing services. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With its abysmal rating in this category, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home offered far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The last metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.4 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the final area, this facility really did not fare well. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this was this facility's worst category. There are a host of criteria included in this category. Many of these subcategories relate to staffing levels. With only 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. Finally, we also looked at some quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This nursing home was above average in two of the statistics we focus on, with good marks for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Sundale Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Sundale Nursing Home, 7% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure measures the percentage of long-term patients who are suffering from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Sundale Nursing Home, 3.27% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure tells you the percent of long-term residents who had a fall which caused severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Sundale Nursing Home, 7.92% of Patients had UTIs
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term care patients that sustained a UTI. UTI's may be a sign of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be misleading for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Sundale Nursing Home, 18.3% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are used for a variety of conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Sundale Nursing Home, 6.73% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure measures the percentage of long-term care residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Sundale Nursing Home, 2.19% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who are showing symptoms of depression. High rates of depression may be a sign a lower level of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Sundale Nursing Home, 95.49% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Sundale Nursing Home, 18.23% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Sundale Nursing Home, 22.22% of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Some experts argue that mobility is critical to residents' physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Sundale Nursing Home, 0.03 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is important to the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Sundale Nursing Home, 22.22% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Sundale Nursing Home, 21.3% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Sundale Nursing Home, 70.94% of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Morgantown, WV
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
Looking for more options? Morgantown, West Virginia has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Monongalia County General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.18 miles away1200 Jd Anderson Drive Morgantown West Virginia 26505Voluntary non-profit - Private(304) 598-1200
- Fairmont Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 17.04 miles away1325 Locust Avenue Fairmont West Virginia 26554Voluntary non-profit - Private(304) 367-7100
- Preston Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 19.66 miles away150 Memorial Drive Kingwood West Virginia 26537Voluntary non-profit - Private(304) 329-1400
Nearby Dialysis
- West Virginia University Hospitals Inc2.21 miles awayRenal Dialysis Center Medical Center Dr Box 8043 Morgantown West Virginia 26508Dialysis Stations: 10 (304) 598-4108
- Bma - Morgantown3.89 miles away5000 Greenbag Road Morgantown West Virginia 26501Dialysis Stations: 17 (304) 284-8738
- Fmc - Bruceton Mills16.28 miles away856 Casteel Road Bruceton Mills West Virginia 26525Dialysis Stations: 16 (304) 379-2770
- Fresenius Kidney Care - Greene County16.43 miles away11 Industrial Park Road Carmichaels Pennsylvania 15320Dialysis Stations: 12 (724) 966-9292
- Fmc - Fairmont16.94 miles away2231 Landing Lane Fairmont West Virginia 26554CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (304) 363-3644