Charleston Healthcare Center

    3819 Chesterfield Ave, Charleston, WV 25304
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.45·(42)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.8
    • Staff

      3.1
    • Meals

      1.9
    • Amenities

      3.3
    • Value

      2.0

    Pros

    • Newly remodeled private, hotel-style rooms
    • Private en-suite bathrooms
    • Strong rehabilitative therapy program
    • Skilled and compassionate therapists
    • Friendly and personable caregiving staff
    • Visible nursing leadership on units
    • Clean, well-maintained public areas
    • Engaging special-event dining and entertainment
    • On-site spiritual and faith services
    • Availability of daily staffing transparency data

    Cons

    • Chronic understaffing leading to delayed resident assistance
    • Inconsistent responsiveness to clinical and toileting needs
    • Unreliable meal delivery and inconsistent food quality
    • Supply-chain and medication-administration gaps
    • Inadequate laundry and bedding turnaround practices
    • Weak maintenance and equipment-management processes
    • Poor communication and care-coordination systems
    • Billing and insurance processing errors with collection risk
    • Professional-conduct and privacy-control weaknesses
    • High staff turnover and supervisory instability
    • Restricted visitation and activity access during lockdowns
    • Allegations of theft and record-falsification incidents

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews describe a facility with substantial physical upgrades and a capable rehabilitative program, but with recurring operational shortcomings that produce widely varying resident and family experiences. Many comments praise the building, private rooms, and therapy outcomes, while others raise concerns about day-to-day care processes, staffing, and administrative reliability. The result is a mixed portrait in which strengths in environment and therapy coexist with systemic operational risks.

    Care and staff: The facility is frequently credited for strong therapy services and several clinicians who achieve good functional outcomes. Families also report instances of compassionate and attentive caregivers, visible nursing leadership, and staff who know residents by name. Counterbalancing those positives are repeated accounts of chronic understaffing, long waits for assistance, inconsistent toileting and bathing schedules, delays in wound care or bed/bedding changes, and gaps in medication or supply availability. There are also periodic complaints about professional conduct and privacy—examples include inappropriate discussions of resident information and behaviors perceived as unprofessional. High staff turnover and supervisory instability were mentioned as factors that may exacerbate inconsistency of care.

    Dining and activities: Special events and holiday dining are frequently described as excellent — well-decorated dining spaces, live music, and attentive staff during programs. However, routine meal service appears inconsistent: reviewers reported late or cold meals, portion and diet-order issues, and hydration gaps. Activity access is variable; while the facility can produce engaging events, some reviewers described limited regular programming or restricted access during lockdowns, which affected social opportunities for residents.

    Facilities and management: The physical plant and recent remodel are clear strengths — private rooms, en-suite bathrooms, and an updated, hotel-like aesthetic are noted repeatedly. At the same time, there are operational concerns related to maintenance turnaround, equipment tracking and repairs, and coordination during renovations versus what families were told. Administrative issues were raised around discharge coordination, billing and insurance processing errors, and the risk of collections. A small number of serious allegations involving theft and record-falsification were reported; these require verification through official records or regulatory sources.

    Notable patterns and guidance: The pattern across reviews is one of strong environmental and rehabilitative capacity paired with inconsistent operational reliability. Prospective residents and families should verify current staffing levels and turnover, request recent inspection or citation history, review sample menus and typical meal service times, ask about equipment-management and maintenance response times, and confirm billing and insurance procedures. Observing a shift change, speaking with current families, and asking to see daily staffing data are practical steps to assess whether the facility's strengths are matched by dependable, day-to-day care practices.

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    Medicare Ratings

    3·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

    Charleston Healthcare Center is located at 3819 Chesterfield Ave, Charleston, WV, 25304.

    About Charleston Healthcare Center

    Charleston Healthcare Center sits at 3819 Chesterfield Ave in Charleston, West Virginia, and operates as a skilled nursing facility that belongs to CommuniCare Health, which is one of the nation's larger post-acute care providers and a family-owned for-profit company, so you're looking at a place that's handled by people who have many other facilities across the country. The center can serve up to 184 residents and has caregiving staff on duty 24 hours a day, every day of the week, offering short-term and long-term services, medical care, social programs, and help with daily life. Charleston Healthcare Center's staff can provide wound care, hospice care, palliative care, psychiatric and psychoanalyst services, and they use hospital equipment and supplies as needed, plus residents can access physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy when needed, and there's respite care for family caregivers who need a break or when someone returns home after surgery.

    English is the main language spoken among staff, the staff works to involve both residents and families in planning care, and they do their best to maintain personalized care plans for everyone living there, including for folks needing memory care for Alzheimer's and dementia, with secure areas and regular mental stimulation activities. Residents get help with personal care and have access to emotional and physical well-being support, plus they can join in plenty of activities like bingo, music, food events, arts and crafts, and holiday gatherings for entertainment and social time. Charleston Healthcare Center aims to offer a comfortable environment similar to what you'd find at home, and they do focus on letting people keep as much independence as they can.

    However, it's important to point out that the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have given Charleston Healthcare Center a low overall rating of 1 star, showing they've struggled to meet some expected standards, and in recent years the facility's gotten violations and citations tied to staffing, cleanliness, and the way they give care, plus there have been fines related to broken rules, slow follow-up to resident complaints, and outdated paperwork. Charleston Healthcare Center offers a wide range of health and social support services but if you're looking at options, know the facts about their ratings and past issues.

    People often ask...

    Charleston Healthcare Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 3819 Chesterfield Ave, Charleston, WV 25304.

    No, Charleston Healthcare Center does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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