Valley View Community

We want to point out that this place received a much better grade for long-term care than it received overall. In fact, we gave it one of our highest scores in that category with a grade of A. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Inspections is another category where this facility excelled. In fact, we awarded this nursing home an A- for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than its overall grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite insignificant. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. There are a host of factors included in this area. Many of the subcategories are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular place provided a meager 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This statistic is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's weakest category is short-term care, which is the final area we analyzed. Sadly, it received an F in this area. Even with some respectable grades in other areas, this score is still concerning so we felt obligated to make a note of it. With our short-term care rating, we endeavor to forge a fair barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.