Eagle Valley Meadows

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that area, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an C. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, while this facility got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this metric.

Unfortunately, this nursing home's next best category was long-term care. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed somewhat badly. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinates 99.570816 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

The next area we analyzed is short-term care, in which this facility received a rock bottom score in this area as well. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is obviously very concerning. Our short-term care scores are based on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With its score in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.