Valley Care and Rehab

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our nursing rating includes many subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received an A+ long-term care grade, rendering it one of the few nursing homes to receive several A+ category scores. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 90.434784 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat below what we expected but still a respectable percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We awarded this facility an A for inspections. Our inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category usually have few severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the final category we scored, this nursing home was awarded an impressive grade grade of A- in our short-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home finished off a straight A report card. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.