McDowell Healthcare Center

    150 Venus Rd, Gary, WV 24801
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing
    2.8ยท11 reviews

    Warm compassionate care and support

    I had a largely positive experience - the staff provided excellent, compassionate care with warm Southern hospitality and genuine, family-like bedside manners. Their loving end-of-life support meant the world to my family and me.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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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

    2.82ยท(11)

    Overall rating

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

      2.6
    • Staff

      2.0
    • Meals

      2.8
    • Amenities

      2.8
    • Value

      2.8

    Pros

    • Compassionate nursing assistants (CNAs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs)
    • Supportive end-of-life and palliative care
    • Personable bedside manner and family-like interactions
    • Hospitable, respectful staff interactions
    • Instances of high-quality clinical care

    Cons

    • High staff turnover and inconsistent staffing
    • Gaps in resident safety monitoring and incident response
    • Limited on-site diagnostic access and long imaging wait times
    • Inconsistent pain- and symptom-management practices
    • Cleanliness and linen-management issues
    • Nutrition and weight-monitoring inadequacies
    • Poor family communication and phone responsiveness
    • Perceived weak leadership and management responsiveness
    • Resident property-security and incident-investigation gaps
    • Inconsistent care practices and policy-compliance concerns

    Summary of reviews

    Overview: Reviews present a polarized view of care at this facility. Many families and visitors describe individual caregivers who demonstrate compassion, strong bedside manner, and attentive end-of-life support. At the same time, several operational weaknesses are described that affect continuity of care, resident safety, and family confidence. Prospective residents and families should weigh these contrasting themes when evaluating the facility.

    Care and clinical services: Clinical experiences appear uneven. There are positive accounts of attentive nursing care delivered by CNAs and LPNs and episodes of strong clinical management. Conversely, reviewers also describe delays in diagnostic services (notably long waits for imaging), challenges with pain and symptom control, and concerns about timely responses to acute events. These descriptions suggest variability in clinical responsiveness and the need to confirm current protocols for pain management, incident escalation, and access to off-site diagnostics.

    Staffing and staff conduct: Staff behavior and stability emerge as central themes. Several reviewers praise individual staff members for compassion and a family-like approach, while others report inconsistent staffing, frequent turnover, and concerns about the tone and conduct of some employees. There are specific comments implying slow or inadequate responses to safety events and interruptions that were perceived as rude. Overall, the pattern points to strong individual caregivers coexisting with systemic staffing and supervision challenges.

    Dining, nutrition, and activities: Direct commentary about dining and organized activities is limited, but multiple references to resident weight loss and inadequate monitoring indicate possible gaps in nutrition oversight and follow-up. Families concerned about nutrition and weight trends should ask the facility about nutritional assessment routines, weight-monitoring frequency, and individualized meal plans. There is insufficient information to draw conclusions about the breadth or quality of recreational programming; prospective families may wish to request schedules and participation rates.

    Facilities, cleanliness, and safety: Reviewers mention cleanliness and linen-management issues in some areas, and describe concerns about cleanliness standards and timely attention to personal-care needs. There are also reports raising questions about property security and how incidents involving resident belongings are investigated and resolved. Together these observations suggest the need to review the facility's housekeeping protocols, laundry turnaround, and property-security policies during a tour.

    Management and communication: Communication and responsiveness from leadership are recurring concerns. Reviewers describe difficulty reaching staff by phone, unsatisfactory family communication, and a perception of limited managerial responsiveness to incidents. Some comments indicate a reluctance to recommend placement based on these communication and oversight concerns. Prospective families should ask for the facility's communication policies, family-point-of-contact procedures, and examples of how management follows up on incidents.

    Notable patterns and recommendations: The overall pattern is mixed: clear praise for individual caregivers and moments of high-quality, compassionate care, contrasted with operational issues that include staffing instability, inconsistent clinical responsiveness, sanitation and linen-management lapses, nutrition-monitoring shortfalls, and questions about incident handling (including property security). These are facility-level traits that can materially affect resident experience. When evaluating this facility in person, consider asking for recent staffing ratios and turnover statistics, documentation of pain-management and incident-response protocols, timelines for imaging referrals, examples of communication to families after incidents, and policies for property security. Observing shift changes, reviewing housekeeping logs, and speaking directly with care staff and unit leadership can help determine whether the facility's strengths outweigh the operational concerns for your specific needs.

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    Medicare Ratings

    5ยท/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

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

    Location

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    McDowell Healthcare Center is located at 150 Venus Rd, Gary, WV, 24801.

    About McDowell Healthcare Center

    Mcdowell Healthcare Center, also called Mcdowell Nursing And Rehabilitation Center, is a family-owned skilled nursing facility with 120 certified beds, located in an area with mountain views and close to trails, lakes, parks, and arts centers. The community provides nursing care, short-term and long-term rehabilitation, memory care, assisted living, palliative care, hospice, and wound care along with specialized programs like Honor 360 and Advance 360 for care management, and has an affiliation with Communicare Health. Residents get 12-16 hour nursing care, a 24-hour call system, therapy services such as physical, occupational, and speech therapy, help with bathing, dressing, medication, transfers, and assistance for non-ambulatory care, so those who are frail or need advanced medical supervision often call this place home, and there's a 24/7 medical staff for more complex needs like cardiac and pulmonary management. The rooms are studios with different layouts, are fully furnished, and have amenities like private bathrooms, kitchenettes, cable TV, phones, air conditioning, and Wi-Fi, which makes life more comfortable for residents, and the community setting includes common areas such as a dining room, movie theater, arts and fitness rooms, salon, computer center, gaming room, library, gardens, and outdoor walking paths, all designed to support both physical and emotional health. Dining is a bit different here, with a professional chef and options for meals all day, as well as care for special diets, and the activities calendar stays busy with bingo, music, arts, therapy dog visits, movie nights, planned outings, and both staff- and resident-run programs to encourage social engagement, all organized in a way that tries to meet each person where they're at. Transportation's provided for both medical and non-medical trips, and other services include housekeeping, linen, laundry, move-in coordination, and support for families, with regular input through resident and family councils to help adjust and improve care. Mcdowell Healthcare Center's inspection records show 19 deficiencies, including issues about Quality of Life and Care (F0684) and Resident Assessment and Care Planning (F0644, F0645), but no actual harm has been recorded, and reports, including a 37.8% nurse turnover rate and 3.71 nurse hours per resident per day, are available as of June 2025 through hospital inspection databases, and the center currently holds a 4-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Medicaid and Medicare are both accepted to help with financial coverage, and the facility offers both short stays for post-hospital rehab and long-term residence, making it suitable for a range of needs, from complex medical support to daily help and activities that keep residents engaged and connected.

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