Premier Estates of Cinnati-Riverview

With more than 25 facilities to choose from in Cincinnati, Ohio, Premier Estates of Cinnati-Riverview is one of the multitude of facilities in the city. We gave this nursing home an extremely poor overall rating based on the data we assessed. Based on our assessment, this place is not a fit for anyone. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection rating. You can scroll down to learn more about inspections and other category scores

Although we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a relatively impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our better scores in that area with a grade of B. Inspection scores are based on many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Most importantly, you should avoid facilities with severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. Nursing ratings are largely tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. With 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this facility surpassed the national average. We also look at the skill levels of nurses and add more weight to hours worked by skilled nurses. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is typically a good measure of how carefully a place's nursing staff is tending to its patients. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses and superior safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to the area of long-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in this category. Nursing homes that do not fare well in long-term care often do not provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in some of the areas of routine personal care we looked at. Even though we determined this nursing home had an impressive volume of nursing hours provided by nurses aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be a bit low. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 81.1245 percent of its residents. This is a figure we would really like to see this facility improve. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. With 1.94 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this place did not fare as well as the average nursing home.

The next category we analyzed was short-term care. We gave it an F in this area, which is an abysmal score. In our short-term care grade, we seek to create a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. We found that this place was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we considered. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 26.1 percent of its residents returning home.