Valley View Home

The main reason this facility received a decent overall score is its impeccable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of A-. This is a much better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but certainly not elite. Inspection scores weigh several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this area tend to have few severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also performed well in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of A-. Very few nursing homes performed more favorably in this area. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.674416 percent of its patients. This is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also awarded this facility a decent grade in the category of short-term care, where it received a C. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. We were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. The last item we assessed in this area is the number of residents that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.

Moving on to our final category, this facility was given a decent nursing grade of C. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below average. Lastly, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percentage of residents who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these data points are decent measures of the quality of nursing care.