Rio Vista Post Acute and Rehabilitation

In addition to being a strong facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A-. Few facilities fared better in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Nursing scores are mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also received a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this category. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this nursing home received a grade of B- for long-term care, which is generally an acceptable grade. Our long-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of nursing care. This includes a vast range of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted vaccination data. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.