River Valley Inn Nursing Home

River Valley Inn Nursing Home is a nursing home in Del Norte, Colorado, which has 3,231 people. It looks like this is a good nursing home. We awarded it an overall grade of B, which is a very solid rating. This facility truly has plenty working in its favor. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in that area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility was awarded high marks in the category of long-term care as well. Consequently, we awarded it one of our most superb grades in that area with a area of A. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are kept in good health. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. The last datapoint we looked at was the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 2.6 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. The nursing score analyzes a handful of subcategories, however, the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, this place was relatively weak in some of the major areas we focus on, with subpar scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The last category we analyzed was short-term care. This facility received a C for the area. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 30.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.