Embassy of Valley View

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area generally have few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+ in our long-term care category. This is one of our better grades. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 89.14286 percent of its residents, which is somewhat less than we expected. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. We assessed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to our fourth category, we gave this facility a grade of D in our short-term care category. This is the facility's least impressive category score. Naturally, this score pulled down the nursing home's overall profile a bit. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.