Valley West Post Acute

Valley West Post Acute is located in Williams, California. The city has 5,992 people. With an overall grade of D, this is a lower end nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Williams. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive nursing score. You can continue reading to find out about nursing and other category grades

While this facility's overall score was not a highlight, it really excelled in nursing. We awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. The nursing score weighs many factors. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 4.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is better than what is offered by most facilities. Finally, this nursing home also fared even better in most of the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, it had a low rate of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

One of this nursing home's higher category scores was in the category of long-term care. This turned out to be its second most favorable category. In that area, we awarded this facility a B-. Our long-term care ratings are more meaningful for individuals needing more traditional assistance associated with personal care. After we finished assessing the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinates 99.709305 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.46 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.

The third category we graded was short-term care, where this nursing home was given an F. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Given its weak score in this category, we were not shocked to learn that this place offered significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 19.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. When a place has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to resident safety. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to resident health or safety. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed large government fines of over $100,000. This often signifies that a facility's poor track record spanned more than one year.