Valley House Rehabilitation Center

We would like to point out that this facility's nursing rating exceeded its overall grade. This nursing home earned a grade of B in this category, which is one of our better grades. Our nursing score weighs a handful of subcategories, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a patient more frequently.

We also gave this facility a decent grade in the area of short-term care, with a B-. In our short-term care grade, we endeavor to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below average.

Next we looked at this nursing home's inspection rating This is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded it a C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road score in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category G through L deficiencies. This tells you this facility dodged the more serious categories of deficiencies. We didn't consider anything on this facility's inspection reports to be too concerning.

Turning to our fourth category, we gave this facility a D for the area of long-term care. This was the facility's least impressive category rating. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. One of the data points we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 96.414345 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this facility also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.