River Valley Inn

We gave this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care rating. This score is more impressive than its overall grade. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 99.42857 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection grades are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this nursing home a middle of the pack grade in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of C. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. It doesn't look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This facility's least impressive area is nursing, which is the last category we analyzed. In this area, we gave this nursing home a grade of D. Nursing grades are primarily tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This particular facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This statistic is quite a bit below average. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home was above average in two of the major metrics we focus on, with solid scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are typically reliable measures of the quality of nursing care provided.