Valley View Health Care
7119 Highway 1 South, Marksville LA 71351 · (318) 253-6553 · 82% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Valley View Health Care is a nursing home located in Marksville, Louisiana. This city has a population of 11,502 people. Sporting an overall grade of D, this is a well below average nursing home. As far as we can see, we'd struggle to recommend this place. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
Although we didn't grade this facility favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. We wish we had more information about this facility. Without having access to complete deficiency data, it ended up being challenging to really evaluate this nursing home in this area.
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home's next highest area turned out to be its long-term care grade, where it was awarded a B-. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 94.97041 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.23 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less impressive than its other scores in the long-term care area.
Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below average. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. These scores hurt this nursing home's nursing grade quite a bit.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the last category, this facility really didn't fare very well here either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is about as terrible as it gets. Short-term care scores are meaningful for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With a score in this range for this area, we weren't stunned to learn this place was below average in two of the key staffing metrics we assess. The nursing home offered significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 30.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Valley View Health Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of residents given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to patients for many medical conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
Measures the percentage of long-term patients that were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is key to maintaining the physical health of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better