Riverwalk Village
295 Westfield Rd, Noblesville IN 46060 · (317) 773-3760 · 83.9% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Riverwalk Village is a facility located in Noblesville, Indiana, a city with a population of 64,438 people. With an overall rating of C, this appears to be a decent nursing home. This grade was right in line with the city grade in Noblesville, which admittedly is admittedly a bit below average nationally. One of the best aspects of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection rating, which you can find in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 169 Beds
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 9 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
This facilities next best area is long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this category. Long-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of nursing care. This means a vast scope of personal care services, ranging from help with activities of daily living to routine medical services. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility vaccinated 97.565926 percent of its residents, which is an above average percentage. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.88 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home is not too far off the national average.
Nurse Quality
Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of D. In determining our nursing scores, we analyze both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home was above average in two of the statistics we considered, with solid scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These statistics are generally good measures of the quality of nursing care offered.
Short-term Care Quality
The next area we assessed is short-term care, which is this nursing home's worst area. It received an F in this category, which is certainly a major concern. Short-term care grades are typically used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. To have highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 33.6 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, this was well below average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Riverwalk Village Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better