Beaver Valley Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

With an address in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, Beaver Valley Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is one of just a few nursing homes in this city. This is a solid facility, with an overall grade of B-. You can certainly do worse than this facility. This facility was stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A-. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the category of short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. Short-term care grades are crucial for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This place performed better than most facilities in this area with 53.6 percent of its patients returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. Our long-term care ratings are more meaningful for individuals in need of more traditional assistance associated with activities of daily living. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.135445 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 2.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than the majority of nursing homes due to it having some more complicated patients.

The final area we rated is nursing. This facility was given a grade of B- in this category. We looked at the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time the nurses worked with residents, in determining our score in this area. This nursing home averages just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, although this nursing home didn't rank well in terms of nursing hours per resident, it performed much better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this nursing home performed better than average.