Central Valley Specialty Hospital - Special Nursing Facility

To pair with its strong overall grade, this facility earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. We scrutinized the levels of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a patient more often.

An additional strong feature for this nursing home is that it received an impressive long-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being its second best category score. In this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. Based on the long-term care metrics we were able to find for this nursing home, you could do much worse than this place.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our last category, we awarded this facility a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This topped off a very impressive profile. Short-term care ratings are vital for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. It does not look like this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.