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W
hen you are in the hospital
recovering from illness or
injury and are making good
progress, but might not be quite ready to
go home yet, skilled nursing can o er
the transition care you may need.
ValleyCare’s 26-bed Skilled Nursing
Facility, located at the Valley Memorial
Center on the Livermore campus, is
an integrated part of ValleyCare Health
System.
“Our department o ers skilled
nursing care and completely individualized
rehabilitation for patients who are medically
stable and no longer require acute hospital
care,” says Meriam Signo, MSN, RN, NE-BC,
director of the department. “It is speci cally designed
to help patients make the transition from hospital to
home quickly and cost-e ectively.”
Signo says that
treatment is intense
and typically short-
term—the average
stay is 10 to 14 days.
FIVE STAR RATED
Recently, the
Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded ValleyCare’s
Skilled Nursing Facility a five-star rating. “Being rated
five stars is very rewarding, and it’s also important
when people are considering a nursing care facility,”
says Signo.
e scores are derived from three performance
measures including state health inspections, sta ng
levels and quality measures. ValleyCare scored above
average in state and national averages for quality measures,
which include administering appropriate
seasonal vaccines and pneumonia vaccines.
CMS states that the Five-Star Quality
Rating System was created to provide
consumers, their families and caregivers
an easy way to understand assessments of
nursing home quality, making meaningful distinctions
between high- and low-performing nursing home facilities.
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