Valley Health Center

In addition to performing well overall, this facility earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that area with a grade of A+. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

An additional reason we rated this nursing home so favorably is that it was given an A+ long-term care grade. This is simply as dominant as it gets in this category. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 95.23809 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing rating features several subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. With 6.6 hours of nursing care per resident each day, this place surpassed the vast majority of facilities. Lastly, this facility also excelled in several of the quality measures we looked at. With fewer than five percent of its residents experiencing pressure ulcers, this place performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by offering better nursing care and a policy of turning residents at least once a day.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home was awarded a very strong short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a grade of B+ in this category, topping off one of our better report cards. In calculating these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.