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River City Rehab Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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15480 Max Leggett Parkway,
Jacksonville FL 32218

(904) 321-1909

85.94% estimated occupancy ¹

River City Rehab Center is an average-sized nursing home in Jacksonville, Florida. It looks like this nursing home is one of the higher-graded facilities we looked at. A score in this range requires high-end marks across the board. Even in a city of 31 nursing homes, this nursing home stood out. If you scroll down, you will see this place's category grades, which are also strong.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
For profit - Corporation

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Facility Inspections

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection grades are based on pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Without having all of the information regarding deficiencies for this facility, it ended up being difficult to grade the place in the area of inspections.

Short-term Care Quality

We also would like to emphasize the fact that this facility received a top-shelf grade of A in our short-term care category. In the area of short-term care, we seek to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

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Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home is also above average in the area of long-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Nursing homes that do well in this category typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 99.04762 percent of its patients, which is far higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Nurse Quality

The final category we graded was nursing. This nursing home received a very good nursing grade this year, with a B. While this was not nearly as dominant as many of its other category grades, this is nevertheless one of the more favorable grades in that category. When computing our nursing ratings, we assess both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This nursing home was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

River City Rehab Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In River City Rehab Center, 9.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In River City Rehab Center, 3.81% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are often the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing care limits the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In River City Rehab Center, 4.04% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term care residents that sustained UTI's. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having differing reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In River City Rehab Center, 13.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This figure tells you the percentage of long-term patients who are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such drugs aren't medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients suffering from Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In River City Rehab Center, 30.63% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are used to treat patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In River City Rehab Center, 6.42% of Patients

This indicates the percent of patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In River City Rehab Center, 97.01% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In River City Rehab Center, 13.15% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In River City Rehab Center, 14.72% of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term care residents who retained mobility levels. Some experts believe that mobility is critical to patients physical and mental health.

Hospitalizations

In River City Rehab Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In River City Rehab Center, 14.72% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In River City Rehab Center, 9.11% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to gauge short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In River City Rehab Center, 79.65% of Resident

This is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.