Riverview Tcu

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. It doesn't look like we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing score. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home an A+. Our nursing category consists of several factors, many of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics 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 place Indiana in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving a patient at least once a day.

The next category we assessed was short-term care. This nursing home also received an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to be awarded several A+ category grades. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 7.1 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

In our final area, we gave this facility an A+ for our long-term care grade. This rounded out an elite profile. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on 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 only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.