Care One at Valley

Care One at Valley is the lone option we identified in Westwood, New Jersey. After receiving an A overall grade, this nursing home has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 100 best nursing homes in New Jersey. This is an impressive achievement in a state with a long list of elite facilities. You simply can not do much better than this place. Keep reading to see this nursing home's category ratings, which are also impressive. It is hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this facility a score of A+ for its short-term care grade. In crafting these short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. This place is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it provided about one and a half times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 64.5 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility also was given a impressive long-term care grade. In fact, this is this facility's third most impressive category score. In that area, this facility received a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.11504 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid negative health outcomes for the elderly population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.58 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

Turning to our fourth area, this facility also performed well in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B+ for this area. This finalized a first-rate report card. When calculating our nursing scores, we weigh both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This place provides an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Of this total, nearly one quarter of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is among the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these data points as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.