River Crossing of Edwardsville

Even though we gave this nursing home a terrible overall score, we awarded it a B- for our nursing rating. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we consider the amount of time nurses are caring for residents and the levels of training of the nurses. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat alarming figure which is well below the national average. Lastly, our nursing scores also consider quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

This facility earned really poor government inspection reports in recent years, causing us to give them an F in our inspection category. An F in this category is typically a signal that we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For nursing homes with poor inspection scores, you should scrutinize any severe deficiencies found on their inspection reports. This nursing home had 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they created a threat to resident safety or health. Lastly, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this place received significant government fines totaling over $100,000. This often means that a bad track record spanned more than one year.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its long-term care grade. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be struggling in a few of the areas of routine medical care we looked at. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 81.36646 percent of its residents. This is significantly less than average. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.

The last area we assessed was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is a rock bottom score. Our short-term care grade is typically used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. As you might expect, we learned that this facility offers significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.