Valley View Health and Rehabilitation

Valley View Health and Rehabilitation is a large nursing home in Madison, Alabama. Featuring an overall grade of A, this is without a doubt a top-shelf nursing home. We ranked this facility as one of the top 100 facilities in Alabama, which is a distinguished list. Keep reading to find this nursing home's category grades, which also impressed us. You really can't do much better than a straight A profile.

We also wanted to point out the fact that this nursing home has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Our inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also would like to alert you to the fact that this facility was given a superb score of A- in our long-term care category. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 94.0874 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. This nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. It had just 1.25 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a much lower hospitalization rate than the majority of nursing homes.

Moving on our third category, this facility received a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that area. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. This nursing home performed much better in the final datapoint we assessed in this area, which was the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. This place performed as well as just about any facility in Alabama in this area with 61.2 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The fourth category we looked at is nursing, where this nursing home received a grade of A-. This rounded out a first-rate report card. Very few facilities earned an A- or better in every single category. The nursing rating is based on a handful of data points, however, the main one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. With 4.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this nursing home surpassed the overwhelming majority of facilities. Lastly, this place also excelled in several quality measures we looked at. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category.