Belleview Valley Nursing Home

Belleview Valley Nursing Home is an average-sized nursing home in Belleview, Missouri. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this looks like a solid nursing home. You could certainly do worse than this facility. While this nursing home has performed respectably, we did want to let you know that there was an ownership change in the last year. We will keep an eye on their inspections and quality scores to see whether their performance goes up or down under new ownership.

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection scores are based on several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also performed favorably in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Very few nursing homes fared more favorably in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 94.6472 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.35 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Sadly, this nursing home only earned a D for its short-term care rating, which is not a very good score. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.

The final category we rated is nursing, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest category. It received a lowly F in this area, which is certainly concerning. Our nursing score includes many subcategories. The most important one is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home averaged only 2.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this facility's nursing rating significantly.