River Valley Rehabilitation Center

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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River Valley Rehabilitation Center's website

17884 Ne Crozier St,
Blountstown FL 32424

(850) 674-5464

83% estimated occupancy ¹

River Valley Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Blountstown, Florida. With an overall grade of B+, this nursing home should work for most prospective residents. This place definitely has plenty of good features. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong profile is its inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Hospice
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
Amputee Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Hemodialysis
Mental Health
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Total Parenteral Nutrition

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Facility Inspections

In addition to being a great facility overall, it also received A+ inspections in recent years. Its inspections are nearly perfect. Inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

We also awarded this facility a grade of A for our long-term care score. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Nurse Quality

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

This facility's least impressive area was short-term care, which is the final category we assessed. In this area, we gave this nursing home a D. We would like to to point out this potential weak link, but you shouldn't focus exclusively on one bad category either. In forming these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 2.5 percent of its residents returning home. This was quite a bit below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

River Valley Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 9.08% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 2.82% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who suffered a fall which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indication of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 1.81% of Patients had UTIs

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents which suffered from UTI's. UTI's could be a sign of a facility with worst hygiene practices. Nevertheless, this metric may also be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 10.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are used to treat several conditions, including cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 21.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 2.33% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Some believe that this is a reliable measure of quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 94.94% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 13.07% Percentage of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 16.78% Percentage of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay patients that maintained mobility. Many argue that the ability to move around is vital to patients well-being.

Hospitalizations

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 1.76 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is important to maintaining the physical well-being of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 16.78 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 9.16 Percentage of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In River Valley Rehabilitation Center, 78.49% Percentage of Resident

This is the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living usually correlates with superior rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

Calhoun-Liberty HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 0.09 miles away20370 Ne Burns Ave Blountstown Florida 32424Voluntary non-profit - Private(850) 674-3493