Riverside Village Healthcare Center

This facility excelled in the category of short-term care, with an A- in this category. This really propped up its overall score. With our short-term care category, we try to create a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility an B. There are several subcategories included in this category. Many of the subcategories relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place California in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a patient at least once a day.

Moving on to the category of long-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in that area. For residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.77778 percent of its patients, which is more than most nursing homes. To our surprise, this place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

In our final category of inspections, this nursing home received a horrible grade. Unfortunately, with an F in the inspection category, this nursing home's overall grade was adversely affected. When a place has this bad of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Lastly, we want to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This generally suggests that a bad track record has been an issue for several years.