Riverview Rehabilitation

To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for its short-term care score. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. When determining our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Tallying another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an impressive grade of A. Our inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The last area we rated was long-term care, where this nursing home was given an A. This wrapped up a very impressive report card. Few nursing homes received an A- or better in all four categories. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were not able to track down this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.