Valley Care and Rehab

Valley Care and Rehab is located in Barnesville, Minnesota, a city with a population of 3,696 people. This nursing home is an A+ rated facility, which is our absolute highest grade. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top ten percentile of all nursing homes nationally. We also gave this facility impressive ratings in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to offering well above average levels of nurse staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.2126 percent of its residents. This percentage is also much higher than the majority of nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Nursing scores are largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provides an incredible 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident each day. Out of this total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of care, this place also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category.

Tallying another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Our inspection grades are based on many pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The final area we looked at is short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded an A-. This finished off a very impressive report card. Very few nursing homes earned an A- or better in every single category. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. This score is generally a fair assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. One of this nursing home's strengths is it provides more than an hour of care per day from registered nurses per patient. This is really the gold standard for this metric, as it's approximately 1.5 times higher than a typical place's level of registered nurse staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.