Rivers Crossing Health and Rehabilitation

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. Inspection grades are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings aren't necessarily the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving residents at least once a day.

This nursing home's third most favorable area turned out to be its short-term care grade, where it received a B-. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Our last category is long-term care, in which we awarded this nursing home a B- in that category. For residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 95.28302 percent of its patients. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.