Located in Charleston, West Virginia, The Arthur B Hodges Center is one of eight nursing homes in the area. This facility is among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. It received one of the most impressive scores that we offer. This is substantially better than most of the facilities in the city. Keep reading to find this nursing home's category grades, which are equally impressive. You just can't do any better than a straight A report card.
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The Arthur B Hodges Center
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- Independent Living
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- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Colostomy Care
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in that area with an A. Arguably the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
To complement its impressive accomplishments in other areas, we gave this nursing home a score of A for its short-term care score. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
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Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing score assesses a handful of factors, but the most important one is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to the fourth area, this facility was given a highly favorable long-term care grade. We gave it a grade of A in this area, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Arthur B Hodges Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Arthur B Hodges Center, 16.13% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of long-term patients who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Arthur B Hodges Center, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing care reduces the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Arthur B Hodges Center, 12.5% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Arthur B Hodges Center, 29.41% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Arthur B Hodges Center, 14.81% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Arthur B Hodges Center, 0% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms. Higher levels of depression may be a sign lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Arthur B Hodges Center, 96.3% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Arthur B Hodges Center, 4.35% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Arthur B Hodges Center, 6.09% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Arthur B Hodges Center, 59.83% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue that this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Charleston, WV
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B
Looking for more options? Charleston, West Virginia has 7 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- St Francis HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.43 miles away333 Laidley St Charleston West Virginia 25301Proprietary(304) 347-6500
- Charleston Area Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.92 miles away501 Morris Street Charleston West Virginia 25301Voluntary non-profit - Private(304) 388-5432
- Thomas Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.11 miles away4605 Maccorkle Avenue Sw Charleston West Virginia 25309Voluntary non-profit - Private(304) 766-3600
Nearby Dialysis
- Fms - Charleston3.19 miles away2345 Chesterfield Ave Charleston West Virginia 25304CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (304) 345-7322
- Davita Greater Charleston Dialysis4.38 miles away24 Maccorkle Ave Sw Charleston West Virginia 25303CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 23 (304) 720-2222
- Fmc - Kanawha County5.43 miles away951 Dunbar Village Dunbar West Virginia 25064CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (304) 766-1009
- Fmc - Hurricane18.51 miles away3768 Teays Valley Road Hurricane West Virginia 25526Dialysis Stations: 17 (304) 760-2305