River Chase Village

River Chase Village is a small nursing home in Gautier, Mississippi. Featuring an overall grade of B, this looks like a good nursing home. You could certainly do much worse than this facility. The best part of this facility's strong report card is its inspection reports. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This facility fared well in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we gave it a score of A- for that category, which turns out to be one of our most favorable grades. In our short-term care score, we attempt to craft a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We were pleased to find that this nursing home employs both registered nurses and physical therapists. The same can't be said for all nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be a real strength for this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country in this area with 71 percent of its residents returning home. This is a substantially better rate than most nursing homes.

This facility's next highest category turned out to be long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our long-term care grade is commonly used to score a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility vaccinated 98.46154 percent of its residents, which is a very solid total. The last datapoint we assessed was its hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 1.96 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is not too far off the national average.

Turning to the next category, this nursing home received a B- in nursing, which we consider to be a respectable score. Our nursing category assesses many factors, most of which are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.