Weirton Medical Center is one of only two available facilities located in Weirton, West Virginia. This nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the five best facilities in West Virginia. We also wanted to point out that this facility is located in a hospital. Typically, this means that more intensive medical services are offered. Scroll down to see this place's category scores, which also impressed us. You really can't do much better than a straight A profile.
Weirton Medical Center
Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
601 Colliers Way,
Weirton WV 26062
76.06% estimated occupancy 1
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Short-term Care Quality
One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ in short-term care. In computing our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This grade is considered to be a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. This nursing home is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. It offered about one and a half times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. This is what we look for when grading a nursing home in this category. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country in this area with 67.9 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection grades are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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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 grade is mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 6 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This was one of the better figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. On top of providing impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any facility in the state in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to the fourth category, this facility was given a highly favorable long-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in this category, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Weirton Medical Center Quality Metrics
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Weirton Medical Center, 12.15 Percentage of Patients
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Weirton Medical Center, 72.36% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Weirton Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0 miles away601 Colliers Way Weirton West Virginia 26062Government - Local(304) 797-6000
- East Liverpool City HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.06 miles away425 West 5th Street East Liverpool Ohio 43920Voluntary non-profit - Private(330) 385-7200
Nearby Dialysis
- Weirton Dialysis Center0.98 miles away100 Colliers Way Suite 1 Weirton West Virginia 26062Dialysis Stations: 17 (304) 748-7384
- Davita - Paris Dialysis1.1 miles away32 Steubenville Pike Burgettstown Pennsylvania 15021Dialysis Stations: 17 (724) 729-3350
- Davita Steubenville Home Training Center6.78 miles away1799 Sinclair Avenue Suite 2 Steubenville Ohio 43952Dialysis Stations: 6 (740) 346-2740
- Davita - Steubenville Dialysis6.91 miles away1799 Sinclair Avenue Suite 1 Steubenville Ohio 43953CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (740) 346-2840
- Dialysis Clinic Inc.7.71 miles away4227 Mall Drive Steubenville Ohio 43952Dialysis Stations: 12 (740) 266-6687
- Dci - East Liverpool16.05 miles away325 West 6th Street East Liverpool Ohio 43920CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (330) 382-0835
- Liberty Dialysis - Hopewell17.93 miles away400 Corporation Drive Aliquippa Pennsylvania 15001Dialysis Stations: 22 (724) 378-6304
- Davita Thorn Run Dialysis19.3 miles away1136 Thorn Run Road, Suite j1 Coraopolis Pennsylvania 15108Dialysis Stations: 15 (412) 269-2304