Landmark of River City Rehabilitation and Nursing
1015 West Magazine Street, Louisville KY 40203 · (502) 815-6460 · 86.84% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Landmark of River City Rehabilitation and Nursing is in the densely populated metropolitan area of Louisville, Kentucky which has a population of 736,284 people. This is a well below average nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Fortunately, if you aren't satisfied with this facility, there are 43 nursing homes to choose from in the city so you should be able to find a better option. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's profile is its impressive inspection score. You can scroll down to find out about inspections and other category grades
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 92 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were fairly low on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A for our inspections rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that have too many severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the inspectors did not consider 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 always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Another one of this nursing home's better category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 10.169493 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Despite having 1.89 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was better than most nursing homes due to it having some more complicated patients.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home wound up receiving a bottom of the barrel grade in our short-term care category. It was given a lowly F in this area. Our short-term care ratings are crucial for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we discovered that this nursing home offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 35.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.
Nurse Quality
Turning to our next area, this facility did not perform very well here either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. Our nursing category consists of several factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. Unfortunately, this facility also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were very disappointed. This place was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign in light of the fact that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this facility's nursing score quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Landmark of River City Rehabilitation and Nursing Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents that are suffering from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients who have suffered a fall resulting in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be an indication of poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic medications. These medications are used for several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic indicates the percent of long-term patients that were prescribed antianxiety medication. These medications are commonly given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of patients exhibiting depressive symptoms. Increased levels of depression may be a sign worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could indicate deterioration of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who were able to retain mobility. Some believe that the ability to move around is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the overall quality of long-term care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric measures the percent of short-term stay patients who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better