Riverside Village

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility really outperformed its overall score in the category of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in this area with a grade of A. Inspection scores are based on several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

One of this facility's higher category scores was in the category of short-term care. This turned out to be its second most respectable category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. It does not appear that this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below the national average.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. There are numerous subcategories within this category. Most of these subcategories relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the number of hours of care provided.

The next category we looked at was long-term care. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of C. Our long-term care grade focuses on a facility's personal care rather than the highly skilled therapy or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. One of the data points we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.