Valhaven Care and Rehabilitation Center

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In this area, we gave this facility an A. Our nursing score analyzes many factors, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place 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 country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of turning a resident even once per day.

This facility also received a fine short-term care score. In fact, this ended up being this nursing home's second strongest category score. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Short-term care scores are important for residents needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also was elite in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A-. Few facilities received a better grade in this area. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.28571 percent of its residents. This is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Wrapping up this nursing home's impressive resume, we gave this facility an A- for our inspections rating. With this grade, the facility completes its straight A report card. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.