Riverview Hospital & Nursing Home

Riverview Hospital & Nursing Home is one of just two nursing homes in Crookston, Minnesota. This nursing home was awarded an A- overall, which is a very strong rating. Based on our analysis, this nursing home is simply as good as it gets. Keep reading to see this facility's category ratings, which are also impressive. It would be hard to poke holes in this place's profile.

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of long-term care, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes did better in this area. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous illness for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility has earned near flawless health inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. Our nursing rating focuses on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provided 1.7 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. At least one fourth of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. This is a high ratio of skilled nursing. In computing our scores, we apply more weight to care provided by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Minnesota in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning residents more frequently.

The last category we analyzed ended up being this nursing home's poorest category. However, even its lowest point would likely be a highlight for most facilities. In fact, we gave it a strong grade of B in short-term care. Short-term care grades are typically employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This nursing home elevated its score in this area by offering more care from registered nurses than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.