Premier Estates of Cinnati-Riverview

While this facility's overall score was terrible, it fared pretty well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B for that area, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection ratings account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with too many severe deficiencies flagged. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in this area. Sadly, this wound up being its second best grade. With our short-term care category, we try to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. With its abysmal score in this category, we were not shocked to find that this facility provides far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. This place also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based metrics to go along with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers could be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.

Turning to the fourth area, this facility really didn't perform very well in this area either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 84.68085 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is quite a bit lower than the national average. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.