Valley View Care Center

In addition to earning a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in our nursing category. We gave it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. In determining a facility's nursing score, we look at the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area usually have very few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

Turning to another strength for this facility, we awarded them one of our higher grades in our short-term care category as well, with a B+. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a facility's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The next area we scored is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a grade of C. Although this proved to be its worst category grade, this is nevertheless not a poor grade. Our long-term care grade is commonly used to gauge a nursing home's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. One of the statistics we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to just 79.06977 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.