River City Living Community

This nursing home received a quality overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A- in this category. Our inspection grades are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to this facility's list of accomplishments, it also was given a high-end long-term care grade. We gave them an impressive strong of A- in this category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 68.115944 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be slightly lower than we expected but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our higher scores in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B. Our short-term care grades are believed to be most important for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The last area we graded was nursing, in which this facility was given a grade of B-. This ended up being this facility's weakest category. This is nevertheless nothing to be ashamed of. The nursing rating considers several subcategories. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.