Worthington Healthcare Center
2675 36th Street, Parkersburg WV 26104 · (304) 485-7447 · 93.8% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Worthington Healthcare Center is one of five facilities in Parkersburg, 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 Parkersburg. Based on our analysis, this facility has some redeeming qualities. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category was long-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 105 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
We awarded this facility an A- for our long-term care score. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 95.90643 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. While it had 2.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was close to the national average due to it having more complex patients.
Facility Inspections
This facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned an B+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these are quite minor. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility's second least favorable score was short-term care, where it earned just a D in that area. This is a well below average grade. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is typically a meaningful measure of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Considering its score in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we looked at. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 37.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The last category we scored was nursing, which ended up being this facility's worst area. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this area, which is clearly very concerning. Our nursing score is based on many data points. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. In addition to ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This place was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these statistics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These scores helped pull down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Worthington Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percent of long-term patients who suffered falls which caused severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that experienced a UTI. UTI's may be a sign of poor nursing care. However, this statistic may be skewed for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. These medications may be used for several medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care patients exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Some experts argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better