Valley Mills Nursing and Rehabilitation

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. In determining our nursing scores, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving a resident at least once a day.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next category we assessed is long-term care. Adding to its strong resume, this nursing home also excelled in this category. In fact, it received a of A- in the category. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 88.2353 percent of its patients, which is a bit lower than we expected. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final area we scored was short-term care. This facility was given an impressive nursing rating this year, with a B. While this isn't as good as many of its other scores, this is nevertheless one of the more impressive grades for this category. Our short-term care grades are believed to be more meaningful for people needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.