Riverview Nursing and Rehabilitation

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a more respectable long-term care grade this year. We gave it a C in that category. Our long-term care grade is often used to measure a nursing home'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 quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Additionally, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care grade is often used to assess a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's inspection rating where it received an F. This usually means we found some red flags on the inspection reports. When a nursing home has this poor of an inspection grade, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. This particular nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

Switching gears to our last category, this facility didn't fare well here either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is just about as terrible as it gets. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility had really poor scores in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients having falls which led to major injury. This nursing home was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite concerning in light of the fact that so many falls could be prevented with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing score.