Riverview Estates

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the area of nursing, where it earned an A. There are quite a few subcategories included in this grade. Many of the datapoints reflect levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A. Inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this category have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without all of the deficiency related data for this facility, it is a challenge to fully assess it in this area.

Turning our third area, this nursing home was given a strong short-term care score. In fact, it received a grade of A- in this category. Our short-term care grades are probably most meaningful for patients requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The final area we looked at is long-term care. In this category, we gave this nursing home a favorable grade of B. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 76.859505 percent of its patients. This is a bit below what we were hoping for. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.