Valley Skilled Nursing Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1969-07-16. 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 (209) 529-0516 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Valley Skilled Nursing Center holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 3 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (3★), Staffing (2★), and Quality of Resident Care (4★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 80.5/100, placing it #3432 of 14703 facilities nationally and #424 of 1162 in California. 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 Skilled Nursing Center receives a reported average of 4 hours 11 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 19 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 1 hour 17 minutes; Nurse Aide — 2 hours 35 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 40 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 2 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 25.0%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

The facility has received 9 fine(s) over the 5-year period, totaling $166,353. 24 substantiated complaints were recorded across the 5-year period — families should request details from the facility or review CMS inspection findings. 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 74.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Valley Skilled Nursing Center ranks 3432nd out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 80.5/100), placing it in the top 25% nationwide. Within CA, it ranks 424th out of 1,162 nursing homes. In Modesto, it ranks 2nd out of 9 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 2nd of 5. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #3,737 nationally and RN hours rank #12,432 nationally (#931 in CA). Our composite quality score of 80.5/100 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 Modesto, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/california/modesto/