Glen at Willow Valley

One of the many reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is it received an A+ inspection grade. This is as good as it gets in this category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. The nursing grade consists of several factors, but the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.7 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering high levels of care, this facility also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With under 5 percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category.

This nursing home also was awarded a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, this is this nursing home's third strongest category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a score of A. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are well cared for. After considering the impressive nursing hours provided by this facility, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.70149 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In the final category we analyzed, this facility received an impressive grade grade of A in our short-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home rounded out a straight A profile. In forming our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that it was above average in this area with 53.6 percent of its residents returning home.