Valley Grande Manor

While this nursing home's overall score was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid facilities with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. Although this facility had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Turning to the area of long-term care, this nursing home was awarded just a D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being its second best grade. When facilities receive this type of score in this category it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated just 58.24742 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

We were stunned to find that this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing. We gave it a score of D for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Nursing grades are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we assessed is short-term care, which ended up being this facility's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Short-term care grades are typically used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. Given its score in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 5.5 percent of its residents returning home.