Riverside Care & Rehabilitation Center

One of the reasons this place is a strong nursing home is that it earned a very impressive inspection rating. In fact, inspections is its best category. In that category, we gave it a grade of A+. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. 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. Indeed, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which is one of our most elite grades. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. After considering the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 93.927124 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of C. 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. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which is a very low figure. Finally, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based assessments, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this facility performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.

The next category we looked at is short-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive area. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Of course, this score pulled down the facility's overall profile to a certain degree. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 4.4 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.