Eagle Valley Meadows

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this area. Our inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's second highest category ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of C. With our short-term care assessment, we try to create a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. In calculating our nursing scores, we assess both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day, which is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally an indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

This facility's worst category was long-term care, which is the last area we assessed. For this category, we gave this facility a grade of D. If you are seeking anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 97.77778 percent of its patients, which is higher than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.