Riverview at the Park Care and Rehabilitation Center

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this facility an A- for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than its overall grade. Our inspection scores are based on many 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 nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facilities second most favorable area was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this category. Long-term care grades are generally used to grade a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 92.9878 percent of its residents. This is a bit less than we expected but still a respectable figure. On a more positive note, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to another strength for this facility, it also received an elite nursing grade. In fact, we gave this nursing home an D. When determining our nursing ratings, we assess both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the last category we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this category. Despite multiple decent scores in other areas, this grade is nevertheless concerning so we felt obligated to make a note of it. Our short-term care scores are arguably more meaningful for those requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we learned that this facility offers far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.