Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center is in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. We gave this nursing home an alarming overall grade based on the data we looked at. This place is really as bad as it gets. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was short-term care, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Mental Health
- Recreational Therapy
- Colostomy Care
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
On top of receiving a poor overall grade, we also gave this nursing home weak scores in our categories. It received a lowly D for its short-term care rating, which was its highest category. In our short-term care score, we strive to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Considering its score in this category, we were not surprised to find that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an F. Our nursing score weighs a number of datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.
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Long-term Care Quality
Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care grade. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the facility didn't perform well in our measures relating to resident care. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this facility administered the vaccine to only 90.27356 percent of its residents, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Facility Inspections
The last category we looked at was inspections. This nursing home did not receive positive government inspection reports in recent years. As a result, we gave it an F here. We would advise paying special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We recommend you pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 8 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Finally, we also need to point out that this place received large government fines recently in excess of $50,000. This typically means that CMS inspectors became fed up after multiple years of failed government inspections.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 7.59% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 3.37% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients who suffered a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in determining our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 1.9% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to poor hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 15.54% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 19.74% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are used to treat residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 3.12% of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 88.22% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 14.84% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence. Many believe that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 21.64% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 1.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 21.64 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of rehabilitation services.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 8.92 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Ridgeview Healthcare & Rehab Center, 72.59% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
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