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Spring Valley Care Center

Nursing Home
Home Health Agency
Independent Living

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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Spring Valley Care Center's website

800 Memorial Drive,
Spring Valley MN 55975

(507) 346-7381

84.6% estimated occupancy ¹

Spring Valley Care Center is a small non-profit nursing home located in Spring Valley, Minnesota. It looks like this is a great nursing home. We awarded this it an overall grade of B+, which is a well above average rating. You can certainly do much worse than this place. One of the highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive short-term care score, which is addressed in the next section.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
Non profit - Other
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Transportation
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy

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Short-term Care Quality

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it received a very impressive short-term care rating. Short-term care turned out to be its best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of A. Short-term care grades are often used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. 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, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Facility Inspections

In addition, this nursing home also earned excellent health inspections in recent years. We gave them one of our better grades in that area, with an A-. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

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Nurse Quality

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing grade weighs a handful of components, however, the primary one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home's least impressive area was long-term care, which is the final category we looked at. For this category, we gave this nursing home a grade of just D. We want to to draw your attention to this possible weak spot, however, you shouldn't over-emphasize one category either. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.73418 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Spring Valley Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Spring Valley Care Center, 10.89% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients who have pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Spring Valley Care Center, 6.33% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a fall which caused serious injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Spring Valley Care Center, 2.56% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often the result of worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Spring Valley Care Center, 7.14% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Spring Valley Care Center, 6.87% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Spring Valley Care Center, 4.05% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who are showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Spring Valley Care Center, 98.79% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Spring Valley Care Center, 10.4% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom. Some argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Spring Valley Care Center, 19.28% of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels. Some argue that the ability to move around is important for patients mental and physical well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Spring Valley Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Spring Valley Care Center, 19.28% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Spring Valley Care Center, 17.27% of Patients

This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Spring Valley Care Center, 80.18% of Resident

This metric measures the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.