Belleview Valley Nursing Home

While we didn't give this nursing home a good overall score, we actually gave it a strong grade in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of C in the area. When computing our nursing ratings, we analyze both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is far below the national average. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared well in this metric. This is generally an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient at least once a day.

This facilities next best category is long-term care. We gave it a C in this category. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this category. Our long-term care grade focuses on a facility's personal care instead of the highly skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility administered the vaccine to just 87.46518 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The next category we analyzed is short-term care. We gave it an F for this area, which is a rock bottom score. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.