Ridgeview Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing

With an address in Cleburne, Texas, Ridgeview Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing is one of only three facilities in this city. Featuring an overall grade of D, this is a subpar nursing home. Unfortunately, this grade is not too far off the city grade for Cleburne, which is a C. Nevertheless, you still ought to be able to do better The best thing we can say about this facility is that it did not receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. More information about these categories is available below.

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area, which is one of our best scores. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having complete information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it is difficult to fully grade it in the area of inspections.

We also gave this nursing home a decent grade in the area of short-term care, where it received a C. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The last measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. It performed much better in this area with 57 percent of its patients returning home.

This nursing home's third best category ended up being long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. Long-term care grades are used to gauge a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed is its hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.58 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not too bad.

This facility's weakest category was nursing, which is the final category we looked at. For this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. Our nursing category consists of quite a few components, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This place averaged a meager 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Lastly, we also looked at some quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This place was above average in two of the major statistics we focus on, with solid marks for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.