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Virginia Veterans Care Center

  • Nursing Home
  • For people with disabilities
  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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4550 Shenandoah Ave N W,
Roanoke VA 24017

(540) 982-2860

87.11% estimated occupancy 1

Virginia Veterans Care Center is a large government-owned nursing home in Roanoke, Virginia. This facility is one of the highest-rated nursing homes we found. A score of this caliber requires top-notch marks across the board. Even in a city with 10 other nursing homes, this nursing home stood out as a superb selection. One of the major highlights of this facility's remarkable profile is its inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Government - State
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

One of the many reasons this place ended up being a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection grades are based on datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A

To complement its strong accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for its long-term care grade. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 97.923874 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. There are many criteria included in this area. Many of these subcategories reflect nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

Switching gears to our final category, this facility was given a respectable short-term care rating. While this is not nearly as impressive as some of its other scores, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. With our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to craft a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 3.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Virginia Veterans Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-minus

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 5.36% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 4.67% of Patients had Serious Falls

This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients which sustained a fall resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indication of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 2.71% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with poor hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 32.79% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to residents for many medical conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 14.6% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients who were given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 0% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 97.67% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 17.38% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 18.57% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

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

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 18.57% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of rehabilitation services.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A-minus

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 7.88% of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A

In Virginia Veterans Care Center, 89.4% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Scores for Roanoke, VA

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A

Looking for more options? Roanoke, Virginia has 9 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Lewisgale Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.47 miles away1900 Electric Road Salem Virginia 24153Voluntary non-profit - Private(540) 776-4000
  • Carilion Roanoke Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.3 miles away1906 Belleview Avenue, Se Roanoke Virginia 24014Voluntary non-profit - Private(540) 981-7000

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