Maple Valley Nursing Home

This facility received an elite short-term care score. In fact, we gave this nursing home an A in this category, which really helped out its overall grade. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we considered in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received a great nursing grade. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Nursing scores are mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning patients even once per day.

This facilities third most favorable area was long-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is basically a slightly below average score in this area. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we looked at is inspections. This facility didn't receive glowing inspections in recent years. As a result, we had to give it an F in this area. Since this information is compiled by independent government inspectors, we heavily weight negative feedback in this area. This really dragged down this place's overall score. With nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection rating, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 15 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.