Riverside Care & Rehabilitation Center

With an address in Calhoun, Kentucky, Riverside Care & Rehabilitation Center is the lone nursing home located in the city. Featuring an overall score of B-, this is likely a decent facility. As far as we can see, this nursing home should be a solid choice for quite a few people. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any weak links in any of the major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with its decent overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This grade is far more impressive than its overall grade. Our inspection scores are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

This facility also was awarded a positive grade in our long-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B in that category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 42.060085 percent of its residents, which is a bit lower than we were hoping for. The last datapoint we assessed was its hospitalization rate. We found that this facility had 2.72 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. In computing a facility's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we rated was short-term care. For that category, we awarded this nursing home a C. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 35.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.