White Sulphur Springs Center
345 Pocahontas Trail, White Sulphur Springs WV 24986 · (304) 536-4661 · 97.35% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
White Sulphur Springs Center is a small nursing home located in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a lower end nursing home. Based on our ratings, this facility likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. The best thing we can really say about this facility is that it didn't receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 68 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B for our inspections category. This grade is far better than the nursing home's overall score. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that have too many deficiencies. This facility received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
Another one of this nursing home's better category grades was in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. It actually performed better than most nursing homes in this category. In crafting these short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it performed decently in this area, with 47.6 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
We were stunned to find that this nursing home also excelled in nursing. In fact, we awarded it a score of D for that category, which is one of our best grades. Nursing scores are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home offered just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These statistics hurt this facility's nursing grade significantly.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we looked at is long-term care, was this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that area. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 96.788994 percent of its patients, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Surprisingly, this place also wasn't as bad as we expected at keeping its patients out of the hospital. While it had 2.16 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic wasn't bad due to it having more complicated patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
White Sulphur Springs Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients which suffered from pressure ulcers . We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be skewed for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for several medical conditions, such as dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients which were administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Many in the industry believe that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Many in the industry believe that mobility is vital to patients mental and physical health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better