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Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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820 Elm Street,
Saint Maries ID 83861

(208) 245-4576

63.51% estimated occupancy ¹

Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries is a small non-profit facility located in Saint Maries, Idaho. This nursing home is a quality facility, with an overall grade of B. You could definitely do much worse than this facility. This nursing home was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of our major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Mental Health
Physical Therapy
Recreational Therapy
Bariatric Care
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Aquatic Therapy

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Long-term Care Quality

One of the reasons this proved to be a strong nursing home is that it received a very impressive long-term care grade. In fact, long-term care was its best category. In that area, we gave this facility an A-. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 87.192116 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Clearly, this place 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 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Nurse Quality

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing score. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. The nursing category is based on quite a few subcategories, many of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a resident more often.

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Short-term Care Quality

Turning to the next category, this nursing home also received a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this area. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Facility Inspections

Finally, we also awarded this nursing home a score of B- for our inspections rating. This facility didn't have any glaring weaknesses. We would argue that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 5.22% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is an indication of the percentage of long-term residents that suffered from pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 6.4% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a fall which caused severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 7.61% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 27.03% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients which are given antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients suffering from cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 14% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 9% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients who are showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 91.24% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 24.49% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the decline of a patient's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 17.2% of Residents

This tells you the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 0.66 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 17.2% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Valley Vista Care Center of St Maries, 69.73% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation services.