Palm Valley Rehab & Care Center

To pair with its strong overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A for the area of inspections. These inspection grades 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. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

This facility is also strong in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. After considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 95.49356 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also was given an impressive short-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average score of B in this area. In the area of short-term care, we strive to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last area we scored was nursing. We gave this nursing home a C in that category. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the number of hours the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below the national average. Finally, nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its patients.