Valley Falls Tearrace is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1973-07-05. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (864) 503-0377 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Valley Falls Tearrace holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 2 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (3★), Staffing (1★), and Quality of Resident Care (3★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 68.6/100, placing it #8918 of 14703 facilities nationally and #117 of 187 in South Carolina. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Valley Falls Tearrace receives a reported average of 3 hours 12 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 8 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 1 hour 15 minutes; Nurse Aide — 1 hour 49 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 2 hours 51 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 1 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 49.4%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

The facility has received 4 fine(s) over the 5-year period, totaling $25,181. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 0 fine(s) totaling $0, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 0. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 31.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Valley Falls Tearrace ranks 8918th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 68.6/100), placing it in the below average nationwide. Within SC, it ranks 117th out of 187 nursing homes. In Spartanburg, it ranks 4th out of 9 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 3rd of 6. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #11,911 nationally and RN hours rank #14,060 nationally (#178 in SC). Our composite quality score of 68.6/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Spartanburg, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/south_carolina/spartanburg/