Hemet Valley Healthcare Center

This facility's nursing score outpaced its overall rating. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for its nursing score. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In addition, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned an B+. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is more often than not a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that just 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

The final area we assessed was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a D for our long-term care category, making this the facility's least impressive category grade. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an above average statistic. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.