Located in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, River's Bend Health Services is one of five available facilities in this city. We gave this nursing home a B overall, which is a solid grade. We were equally impressed that Manitowoc received a B+ city grade, making this one of the best places to find a nursing home. Based on our analysis, this nursing home has quite a bit going for it. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong report card was its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section
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River's Bend Health Services
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
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Facility Inspections
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Nurse Quality
Among this facility's other strengths is its elite nursing grade. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. Nursing ratings are mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving patients more often.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our higher scores in our short-term care category as well, with a grade of B. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to craft a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our final area, this facility really didn't fare very well. Due to an abysmal grade of F in that category, this is notably this nursing home's weakest category grade. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.181816 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
River's Bend Health Services Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In River's Bend Health Services, 7.22% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin resulting from remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In River's Bend Health Services, 0% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a fall which caused major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In River's Bend Health Services, 1.9% of Patients had UTIs
This measures the percentage of long-term residents that experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In River's Bend Health Services, 12.08% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents that were given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. However, some facilities need to rely on these medications due to an increased number of patients suffering from cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In River's Bend Health Services, 20.93% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that are prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are given to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In River's Bend Health Services, 6.53% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients who are exhibiting signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In River's Bend Health Services, 97.85% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In River's Bend Health Services, 14.62% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In River's Bend Health Services, 22.9% of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is usually a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In River's Bend Health Services, 0.02 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.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In River's Bend Health Services, 22.9% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In River's Bend Health Services, 19.95% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In River's Bend Health Services, 70.19% of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's usually correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Scores for Manitowoc, WI
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Manitowoc, Wisconsin has 4 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Holy Family MemorialAcute Care Hospitals 1.55 miles away2300 Western Ave Manitowoc Wisconsin 54221Voluntary non-profit - Other(920) 320-2011
- Aurora Medical Ctr Manitowoc CountyAcute Care Hospitals 5.23 miles away5000 Memorial Drive Two Rivers Wisconsin 54241Voluntary non-profit - Private(920) 794-5000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fresenius Medical Care - Manitowoc1.29 miles away3711 Dewey St Manitowoc Wisconsin 54220Dialysis Stations: 12 (920) 686-1120
- Davita - Manitowoc Dialysis1.43 miles away3303 Dewey St Manitowoc Wisconsin 54220Dialysis Stations: 12 (920) 652-0593