Madison Valley Manor

To pair with its strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for inspections. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also would like to point out the fact that this nursing home received a top-shelf grade of A in our long-term care area. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning our next category, this nursing home was given a top-shelf short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in this category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to score a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home submitted registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final area we assessed was this nursing home's worst category. However, even its worst category would be a highlight for many nursing homes. We gave it a favorable grade of B in nursing. The nursing grade analyzes several factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.