Pleasant Valley Manor

This nursing home really excelled in the area of short-term care, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. If it was not for this area, this facility's overall grade would have been much worse. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is more often than not a reliable assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the country with 55.9 percent of its residents able to return home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an impressive 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Finally, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents sustaining falls leading to serious injury, this place performed as well as just about any facility we looked at. Avoiding major falls is typically a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received a decent inspection grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of C. Inspection grades are based on many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This facility had 4 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates this facility avoided the more serious categories of deficiencies. We did not find anything on this facility's inspection report to be overly alarming.

The next category we scored is long-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. It received an abysmal F in this area, which is certainly a major disappointment. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 91.900314 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be a few points less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.09 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.