Valley View Village is located in Des Moines, Iowa. This city has a population of 212,318 people. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A grade in this range requires strong marks in most areas. This facility proved to be one of the better nursing homes in Des Moines. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive profile is its inspection score. We discuss inspections in the next section
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Valley View Village
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Catheter Care
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Facility Inspections
To go along with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Nurse Quality
This facility really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing ratings are largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Short-term Care Quality
Moving on our next category, this nursing home received a favorable short-term care score. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of A-. Our short-term care grade is typically used to score a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last category we looked at was nursing, was this nursing home's weakest category. We gave this facility a D in this area. This is one of just a few weak links of an otherwise impressive profile. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.6139 percent of its residents, which is more than the vast majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Valley View Village Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Valley View Village, 8.54% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of long-term residents who have new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a great barometer of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Valley View Village, 1.16% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure gauges the percent of long-term care patients that had falls leading to severe injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indicator of lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Valley View Village, 2.77% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a facility's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare different facilities due to facilities having differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Valley View Village, 9.13% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used for treating a variety of medical conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Valley View Village, 28.81% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic measures the percent of long-term patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Valley View Village, 8.91% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Valley View Village, 99.81% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Valley View Village, 20.45% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the erosion of a resident's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Valley View Village, 12.5% of Residents
This is the percentage of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Valley View Village, 0.77 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to preserving the physical health of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Valley View Village, 12.5% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Valley View Village, 13.65% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Valley View Village, 82.07% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Des Moines, IA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Hospitals
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