Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center is located in Taylor, Pennsylvania, a city with a total of 5,274 people. We gave this nursing home an F, which is really a rock-bottom score in our grading scheme. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Taylor. While this place received a single encouraging category score for nursing, which you can find more information about below.
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Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
Please note our records indicate that Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
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Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
While we gave this nursing home a terrible overall grade, we gave it a B- for our nursing rating. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we assess the number of hours nurses are seeing patients and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Lastly, although this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared well in this subcategory.
Long-term Care Quality
Sadly, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care score. Long-term care grades in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 93.47181 percent of its patients. This is a few points below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.
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Facility Inspections
We also wanted to point out this nursing home's inspection rating where it received an F. With places that received this bad of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Lastly, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines recently amounting to over $100,000. This typically signifies that a facility's bad track record has been an issue for several years.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we graded is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a poor score. In calculating our short-term care grades, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. With a score of this caliber in this area, we weren't stunned to learn this place was below average in two of the key staffing figures we looked at. It supplied significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 4.1% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 1.78% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who sustained a fall resulting in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision limits the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 25% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for many conditions, such as dementia. Unfortunately, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 21.2% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 0.62% of Patients
This is the percent of residents who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 95.67% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 21.73% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom. Some experts argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 18.79% of Residents
This is the percent of patients who were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 18.79% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 15.16% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Riverside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, 73.74% of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many believe that this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
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