Spring Valley Health & Rehabilitation Center

Unfortunately, we didn't have any favorable things to say about this nursing home's overall grade or its category scores. This place's best category was nursing. Nevertheless, with a grade of just D in this category, it still performed badly. We analyzed the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our rating in this area. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its long-term care score. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 49.399998 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a few points less than what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.

Unfortunately, this nursing home received an F for its inspection grade. This is a very important category. Grades in this range usually mean we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility had 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, 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.

The final category we graded was short-term care. This facility was given a rock bottom grade of F in this category. With our short-term care score, we seek to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. With a score this poor in this category, we weren't shocked to find this facility was well below average in two of the key staffing metrics we looked at. The facility provided substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last measure we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.4 percent of its patients returning home.