At 725 Dunbar Ave in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Dunbar Village Terrace runs as a nursing home that also covers assisted living and memory care under one roof. The building is single-story, 60 beds, split between private and semi-private rooms, and it’s been open for 33 years now. L. Ivey administers the facility day to day.
The neighborhood’s Walk Score comes in at 39 out of 100, somewhat walkable, so a resident’s family might manage an occasional errand on foot, but most trips still mean getting in a car. Occupancy tells a different story: 95%, with 57 of 60 beds filled, which is high by most standards. The average stay runs about 111 days, roughly three and a half months, long enough to suggest this isn’t a facility built around one narrow type of resident. It’s handling a mix: people recovering from something acute, and people who need nursing care for the longer haul.
Registered nurses, nurse aides, and licensed practical nurses each contribute daily care time, with nurse aides putting in the most hours per resident of the three. Medicaid, Medicare, and private pay are all accepted, which matters a lot for a family trying to figure out how to actually pay for this. Transportation services and fitness and recreation programming round out what’s available on-site, so getting to an appointment or staying physically active doesn’t require leaving the property. On the regulatory side, state inspections here have tended to center on things like medication management, dietary and food service, and staffing and staff credentials rather than anything touching direct resident care.
Put the pieces together and what emerges is a nursing home running near full capacity, staffed across all three core nursing roles, and open to every major way of paying for care. That combination points to a facility built to handle both shorter rehabilitation stays and residents who need nursing support over the longer term, all under one roof.
