Care One at Valley

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area typically have few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't 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.

Adding to its impressive assessments in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A- for our short-term care rating. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be most meaningful for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 6.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The third area we assessed is long-term care. This facility was awarded a very positive long-term care score, with a grade of B+ in the area. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 74.86631 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The next area we looked at is nursing. In that category, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. This actually was this nursing home's worst area. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses commit to patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we like to look at quality-based statistics, such as the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these data points are measures of the quality of nursing care.