Powell Valley Care Center

With an address in Powell, Wyoming, Powell Valley Care Center is the lone nursing home located in the city. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a relatively poor facility. As far as we can see, we'd be very reluctant to recommend this facility. The best thing we can say about this facility is that it did not receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

While we did not have many favorable things to say about this place's overall score, it did receive a respectable government inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in this category with a B-. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. Our nursing score includes quite a few factors, but the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. Based on the staffing data, it looks like this facility provides an impressive 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Out of this total, nearly one quarter of these hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Finally, this nursing home was relatively weak in two of the areas we look at, with subpar scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This nursing home's third best area is short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this category. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is more often than not a solid assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered substantially more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this place is below average.

Switching gears to our final area, this nursing home received an acceptable long-term care score of B-. In the category of long-term care, we focus more on the amount of care provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an above average percentage. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.07 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.