River Oaks Retirement Manor

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its inspection grade. This grade is far better than its overall grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. 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. Based on this, we had a generally favorable view of this facility's recent inspections.

The second most favorable area we gave this nursing home in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. With our long-term care grade, we analyze the amount of services offered by a facility, as well as a series of qualitative measures. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.30796 percent of its patients. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also earned an elite nursing score. We gave this facility an D. Nursing grades are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on to the next area, this nursing home really didn't perform well. Due to a poor grade of F in short-term care, this was its worst area. In determining these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. With a score of this caliber in this area, we weren't shocked to learn that this nursing home was below average in several staffing figures we assess. The facility offered substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. The last item we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.