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Riverside Health & Rehabilitation

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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1301 E Broadway,
Missoula MT 59802

(406) 721-0680

90.97% estimated occupancy ¹

Riverside Health & Rehabilitation is a facility in Missoula, Montana. This city has 90,987 people. Sporting an overall rating of B+, this is a high quality nursing home. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top third of all nursing homes in the country. This facility was also given strong scores in all of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Partnership
Offers Hospice
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management

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Short-term Care Quality

In addition to earning a strong overall grade, this facility fared well in short-term care. We awarded it an impressive grade of A- for that category. Our short-term care scores are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Long-term Care Quality

We also gave this facility a score of A- for our long-term care grade. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 72.81554 percent of its residents. This is slightly below what we anticipated but still a respectable percentage. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Facility Inspections

We also wanted to point out this nursing home's nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them a grade of B+ in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. This nursing home was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

The final category we looked at is nursing. This facility was awarded an above average nursing rating this year, with a B. This facility truly did not have any weak links. Our nursing rating assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good measures of the quality of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Riverside Health & Rehabilitation Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 9.56% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 3.4% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint is an indication of the percent of long-term patients who had falls which resulted in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 3.45% of Patients had UTIs

This statistic measures the percentage of long-term patients who experienced urinary tract infections. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 9.95% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 11.33% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 12.63% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. Many believe that this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 86.41% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 9.5% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of decline of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 14.92% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents who were able to retain mobility. Some would argue that the ability to move around is important for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical health of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 14.92% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 13.56% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Riverside Health & Rehabilitation, 79.22% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term care residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

St Patrick HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.41 miles away500 W Broadway Missoula Montana 59806Voluntary non-profit - Church(406) 543-7271
Community Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.19 miles away2827 Fort Missoula Rd Missoula Montana 59804Voluntary non-profit - Private(406) 728-4100