Valley Park, Missouri offers just two nursing homes to choose from, so you don't have too many options to choose from. We gave this relatively small group of nursing homes a city grade of B, which is a quality rating. This is as good or better than the city grade of most of the cities in the United States. The best part of this city's profile was is its short-term care grade. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.
Part of the reason Valley Park received a favorable overall grade is that many of its facilities excelled in the area of short-term care with a B. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. The city also received one of our higher scores in the area of long-term care, with a B. Finally, this place earned a B for its nursing score and a B- in the area of inspections.