Cascades at Riverwalk

This nursing home earned a very favorable short-term care rating. Its short-term care grade ended up being its best category. In that area, we gave this them a B+. Short-term care grades are typically employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 6.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility's inspection rating exceeded its overall grade as well. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a B. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of B- in this category. Nursing grades are mostly tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this facility performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place.

The last category we rated is long-term care, which was this nursing home's weakest category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this area. For patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 99.61539 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.