Rio Vista Post Acute & Rehabilitation

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home fared even better in our inspections category which is associated with the nursing home's recent government inspections. We gave it an A for that area, which is one of our highest scores. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility earned an excellent nursing rating. We gave it an B+ in that area. Nursing ratings are mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a patient more frequently.

This facility also was awarded an impressive long-term care score. In fact, we gave it an above average grade of B in this area. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After we finished assessing the volume of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 89.96655 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the last category, this facility received an excellent short-term care grade. This nursing home did not turn out to have any weak areas. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.