Protection Valley Manor

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our inspections category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in this area. Inspection grades are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was given a dominant grade of A in our long-term care area. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.809525 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths for the senior population. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We looked at the licensure of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses were with residents, in determining our score in this area. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents more often.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home an acceptable grade of B-. This was this nursing home's weakest area. Short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.