Ozark Riverview Manor

We would like to point out that this nursing home's inspection score exceeded its overall grade. This facility earned a B+ in this category, which is a quality score. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This facility was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This nursing home's next most favorable category turned out to be short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B-. In computing these short-term care ratings, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below the national average.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. In determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the amount of time nurses commit to residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place.

The final category we assessed was long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in that area. This is a fair grade in this category. Our long-term care grade assesses a nursing home's assistance with daily living rather than the highly skilled nursing or medical services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit worried that this facility administered the vaccine to only 89.655174 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.