Riverside Postacute Care

While we were down on this facility overall, we awarded it a B+ for our nursing rating. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's next highest area was its long-term care grade, where it received a B-. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care ratings. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this nursing home received just a D in that area. In our short-term care category, we endeavor to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this facility's short-term care grade.

Turning to our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this category more heavily than our other categories. We would advise paying close attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We suggest you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility was assessed 9 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we would like to point out that this facility was assessed significant government fines recently of more than $50,000. This usually suggests that CMS inspectors became fed up after multiple years of bad government inspections.