Pleasant Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation

Pleasant Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation is a facility located in Little Rock, Arkansas, a city with a population of 214,454 people. With an overall rating of C, this appears to be a decent nursing home. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Little Rock, which admittedly is admittedly a bit below average nationally. One of the better aspects of this facility's report card is its strong inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.

It should be noted that this facility's inspection rating outpaced its overall score. In fact, we gave it a B+ for its inspections rating, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this facility's better category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.31973 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.51 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing rating considers a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 4.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the higher totals we found. Lastly, we also factored some quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The last area we analyzed was short-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a D in that area. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. As you might expect, we found that this facility provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 36.7 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.