Rialto Post Acute Center

This facility fared well in long-term care. In fact, we gave it an A- for that area. This boosted its overall profile. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.619774 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also performed well in the area of inspections. It received one of our best scores in that category with an B+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection scores. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent threat to resident safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Nursing scores are primarily tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually a reliable indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its residents.

Moving on to the last area, this facility was given a respectable short-term care score of C. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. We weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this place. The final metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.