Valley Manor and Rehabilitation Center

Valley Manor and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Featuring an overall grade of B, this looks like a good nursing home. You could certainly do much worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's strong report card is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable short-term care grades this year. Indeed, we gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Short-term care ratings are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. One of this nursing home's strengths is physical therapy hours. We found that it offers more hours with physical therapists to its residents than most facilities. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. This facility was better than average with 51.9 percent of its patients returning home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing rating includes several components, but the main consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we rated was long-term care. We awarded it a C in this category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. Our long-term care grade is typically used to gauge a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinates 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. The last datapoint we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.19 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not too far off the national average.