Pleasant Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Pleasant Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized hospital-based facility located in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. We awarded it an overall grade of B-, which is a middle of the pack score. You can definitely do worse than this nursing home. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of our four major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this place received a much better grade for long-term care than it received overall. In fact, we gave it one of our highest scores in that area with an A. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 94.54023 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it received an B+. Few nursing homes performed as well in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe. This means that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility's next most favorable category ended up being its short-term care score, where it received a grade of C. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it was above average in this area with 52.6 percent of its residents returning home.

The next area we scored was nursing. For this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics. While this place got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning a resident more often.