Mountain View Care Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1978-12-01. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (304) 633-4732 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Mountain View Care Center holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 1 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (1★), Staffing (1★), and Quality of Resident Care (2★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 52.5/100, placing it #13700 of 14703 facilities nationally and #112 of 123 in West Virginia. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Mountain View Care Center receives a reported average of 3 hours 10 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 27 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 55 minutes; Nurse Aide — 1 hour 48 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 2 hours 45 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 1 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 46.7%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $34,496. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $34,496, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 344.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Mountain View Care Center ranks 13700th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 52.5/100), placing it in the bottom 25% nationwide. Within WV, it ranks 112th out of 123 nursing homes. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #12,242 nationally and RN hours rank #9,786 nationally (#99 in WV). Our composite quality score of 52.5/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Ripley, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/west_virginia/ripley/