Riverside Convalescent Cntr We

While we were fairly low on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. Our inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid facilities with severe deficiencies linked to risks to resident well being. This facility received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an D. Our nursing rating includes many factors, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This facility averaged only 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

This facility's second worse category is short-term care, where it received a grade of just D in that category. This is a relatively poor score. With our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a sound measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Given its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the data we assessed. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.7 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.

Switching gears to the last category, this nursing home didn't fare very well here either. With an abysmal grade of F in long-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. When facilities receive this kind of grade in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated only 19.565216 percent of its patients, which is quite a bit lower than we expected. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.