River Valley Rehabilitation Center

With an address in Blountstown, Florida, River Valley Rehabilitation Center is one of a mere two available facilities in this city. Featuring an overall score of B, this nursing home is a very good option. At the end of the day, this nursing home is a solid choice for quite a few people. The best part of this nursing home's impressive report card is its inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph

One of the reasons this place is a strong nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection grade. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In that category, we awarded it an A+. Inspection grades are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home fared well in the category of long-term care. As a result, we awarded it a score of A for that category, which turns out to be one of our most elite scores. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the datapoints we considered in addition to this nursing home's above average nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.589325 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly. This combination proved to be successful as this place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.41 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. When computing our nursing grades, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an impressive figure. Lastly, our nursing scores also weigh quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this metric.

The final category we assessed is short-term care. We gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a rock bottom score. We would not simply dismiss a nursing home because of one poor score though. In our short-term care score, we seek to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. It appears that this nursing home was subpar in the two key staffing metrics we assessed. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 19.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.