Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a senior living facility located in Greenup, Kentucky. The city has a total of 10,279 people. We awarded this facility an overall grade of C. A grade in this range requires some decent scores. You can certainly do worse than this facility. The best part of this place's profile is its remarkable inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.
Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our best scores. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also received a positive long-term care score. In fact, we awarded them a grade of B+ in that category, which is one of our more favorable scores. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.72452 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Does this page answer your questions about Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center?
Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we gave this nursing home an F. This is certainly not one of this facility's better areas. Our nursing score looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This place averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we graded was short-term care. It received a lowly F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is certainly a significant concern. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Considering its grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the data we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 9.06% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 3.84% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 2.74% of Patients had UTIs
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who sustained UTI's. UTI's could be a sign of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this metric can be skewed for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 15.92% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 28.85% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who are given antianxiety medication. These medications are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 8.85% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 90.04% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 15.42% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 20.17% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 1.59 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 20.17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 13.78 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Wurtland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 72.12% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Our Lady of Bellefonte HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.79 miles away1000 Saint Christopher Drive Ashland Kentucky 41101Voluntary non-profit - Private(606) 833-3600
- King's Daughters' Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.8 miles away2201 Lexington Avenue Ashland Kentucky 41101Voluntary non-profit - Private(606) 408-4401
- Kings Daughters Medical Center OhioAcute Care Hospitals 17.44 miles away1901 Argonne Road Portsmouth Ohio 45662Voluntary non-profit - Private(740) 991-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Ironton5.48 miles away158 N 2nd Street Ironton Ohio 45638Dialysis Stations: 16 (740) 532-3099
- Fmc - Ashland9.33 miles away432 16th Street, Suite A Ashland Kentucky 41101Dialysis Stations: 18 (606) 325-5268
- Fmc - Greenup9.41 miles away965 Townhill Plaza Greenup Kentucky 41144Dialysis Stations: 13 (606) 473-0410
- Fmc - Central Ashland9.41 miles away424 River Hill Drive Ashland Kentucky 41101Dialysis Stations: 20 (606) 329-0363
- Fmc - Portsmouth16.58 miles away1648 11th Street Portsmouth Ohio 45662Dialysis Stations: 12 (740) 353-7788
- Fmc - Na of Grayson17.07 miles away286 State Highway 1947 Grayson Kentucky 41143Dialysis Stations: 15 (606) 474-0475
- Dci - Portsmouth17.15 miles away1207 17th Street Portsmouth Ohio 45662CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (740) 351-0596
- Labette Dialysis LLC17.41 miles away367 County Road 406, Unit 11 South Point Ohio 45680Dialysis Stations: 9 (740) 894-0830