Riverside Behavioral Healthcare Center

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility received high scores in the area of nursing as well. It received one of our highest grades in that category with an B-. The nursing score includes several factors. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a low total compared to most facilities. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The next area we graded is long-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of C in this category. Our long-term care grades are more important for patients in need of more traditional assistance related to activities of daily living. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 99.55947 percent of its patients, which is more than the average nursing home. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last area we looked at was short-term care, which was a weak spot for this nursing home. We awarded this facility a D for the area of short-term care. Our short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. With a score of this caliber in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this facility was below average in several staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most facilities. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.