Ottawa Co Riverview Nursing Ho

Ottawa Co Riverview Nursing Ho is an average-sized government-owned nursing home in Oak Harbor, Ohio. It looks like this nursing home is one of the best nursing homes we looked at. A score of this caliber requires superb scores across the board. In fact, we ranked this facility in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the country. We also gave this facility strong grades in each of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this very important area. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its first-rate assessments in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for its short-term care score. Our short-term care grades are arguably more critical for those needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home, which as an area this nursing home performed much more favorably. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country with 66.9 percent of its residents returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

This facility also was elite in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A-. Not many facilities performed better in this area. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia can be a life threatening condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.44 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the last area, this nursing home also performed well in the nursing category. We gave it a B+ in this category. This topped off a very strong report card. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is more than what is offered by most facilities. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality-based metrics we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.