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Riverside Health and Rehabilitation

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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Riverside Health and Rehabilitation's website

101 Old Talbotton Rd,
Thomaston GA 30286

(706) 647-8161

90% estimated occupancy ¹

Riverside Health and Rehabilitation is a facility located in Thomaston, Georgia, a city with a total of 23,490 people. This facility received an overall grade of D in our grading scheme. If you are not satisfied with this facility's low overall grade, you may find you have slim pickings in Thomaston. The city has just two other nursing homes. If you aren't deterred by this place's report card, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.

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Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Other
Secure Memory Care
Offers Hospice
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Home Making
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
Dentistry
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Cardiac Therapy
Podiatry
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Pharmacy
X-Ray
Recreational Therapy
Optometry

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Awards

Top Nursing Home in Georgia Awards 2019

Best Nursing Home in Thomaston, Georgia Awards 2019

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Facility Inspections

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we did give it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with too many deficiencies flagged. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Despite this deficiency, this was still a relatively favorable report.

Long-term Care Quality

One of this facility's better category scores came in the category of long-term care. This ended up being its second best category. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. In the category of long-term care, we look at the quantity of care provided by a nursing home, rather than more healthcare-oriented services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is more than most nursing homes. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Nurse Quality

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. The nursing grade assesses a handful of components, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Moving on to our last category, this facility really did not perform well in this area either. With an abysmal grade of F in short-term care, this is really as terrible as it gets. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is considered to be a reliable measure of the facility's rehabilitation. Considering its grade in this category, we were not stunned to learn that this facility is well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 6.08% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of patients staying in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 8.24% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of patients who have had a fall which resulted in major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 2.35% of Patients had UTIs

This gauges the percentage of long-term care patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's could be a sign of worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint could be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 25.69% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 24.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric tells you the percentage of long-term residents that are given antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally given to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 0% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who are showing depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 100% of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 17.78% of Patients

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 22.99% of Residents

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who remained mobile levels. Many would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' mental and physical well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 0.31 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric tracks the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is key to the physical well-being of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 22.99% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 14.43% of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Riverside Health and Rehabilitation, 65.17% of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

Upson Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.74 miles away801 W Gordon Street Thomaston Georgia 30286Voluntary non-profit - Other(706) 647-8111