River Oaks Health and Rehabilitation Center

While we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it actually earned a fairly impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our more favorable grades in that area with a grade of B. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's second best score is long-term care, but even there it received just a D in that category. This is still a well below average score. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care likely don't provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities offer. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to a relatively low 61.61616 percent of its patients, which is several points lower than we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses and the amount of time 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. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing scores. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The last category we looked at is short-term care, where this nursing home was given a very poor score in this area also. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is obviously a major concern. Short-term care ratings are crucial for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires more highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't surprised to discover that this place was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The final item we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this facility's short-term care score.