Valley Healthcare Center
1680 North Waterman Avenue, San Bernardino CA 92404 · (909) 886-5291 · 93.3% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Valley Healthcare Center is an average-sized facility in San Bernardino, California. We awarded this nursing home a superb overall rating of A-. With a score of this caliber, it turned out to be far superior to the vast majority of the nursing homes in San Bernardino. Based on our analysis, this place is simply as good as it gets. As you can find below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category ratings. It is hard to find any major flaws in this facility's profile.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 109 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
In addition to 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 grade consists of several factors, but the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides an incredible 7.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is far better than what is provided by most places. Lastly, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. For example, it performed as well as any facility California in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these datapoints as good measures of the quality of nursing care provided.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this facility an A- for inspections. Inspection ratings weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better grades in this category tend to have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor dings are not something to panic about.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B+. It performed better than most facilities in this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. One of this facility's strengths is physical therapy. We found that it offers at least 1.5 times as many hours with physical therapists to its residents than most other nursing homes. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 44.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home rather than remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a grade of B. While this turned out to be its least impressive category score, this is nevertheless a strong score. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. One of the criteria we considered on top of this nursing home's impressive nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly. This combination proved to be effective as this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.19 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a much better hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Valley Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents that had UTI's. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. High levels of depression could indicate lower quality care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate decline of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better