Richland Care Center

While we did not rate this facility well overall, we want to note its decent inspections in recent years. We gave it a relatively respectable grade of B- in this area. Our inspection scores account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this facility an B-. The nursing category assesses quite a few datapoints, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

We also awarded this facility a solid score in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a B-. In calculating our long-term care ratings, we size up the personal care offered to the facility's patients. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This place also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The final category we assessed was short-term care, is this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this facility a D in this category. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With a grade in this range for this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this place was well below average in multiple staffing figures we looked at. In fact, it provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.