Cascades at Riverwalk
1012 West Jordan River Boulevard, Midvale UT 84047 · (801) 565-0800 · 76.66% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Cascades at Riverwalk is a senior living facility located in Midvale, Utah, a city with 28,936 people. With an overall score of B-, this appears to be a decent facility. Based on our assessment, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this nursing home's report card is is its short-term care grade. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
This facility really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. If it wasn't for this category, this facility's overall score would have been much worse. Short-term care grades are generally used to score a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. When we assessed this facility's nursing hours, we found it offered more care from registered nurses than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the overwhelming majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 61.6 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it received an B+. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. In determining a facility's nursing rating, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its residents suffering falls leading to major injury, this place performed as well as any nursing home the country. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be avoided if more nurses and better safety protocols are employed.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to our next area, this nursing home really didn't perform well. Due to a poor grade of F in long-term care, this was this facility's weakest area. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. After looking at nursing care provided by this nursing home, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. With a long-term care grade in this range, we were surprised to find that this facility received respectable marks in both statistics. Indeed, this facility vaccinated 97.95082 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which appears to be higher than the average nursing home. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Although it had 1.81 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic wasn't bad since it had some more complicated patients.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Cascades at Riverwalk Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay residents who have suffered from a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better