River Crossing of Moline

While we were not complementary of this place's overall performance, it actually received an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that area with a B. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We also gave this nursing home a middle of the pack grade in the area of long-term care, with a C. Long-term care grades are used to grade a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next most favorable area is short-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is essentially a middle of the pack score in this category. Our short-term care grade is generally employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average facility. The hope is that this does not adversely impact the quality of care. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

The next category we rated is nursing. This facility received a rock bottom grade of F in that area. When calculating a nursing home's nursing score, we look at the amount of time nurses spend with patients and the levels of training of those nurses. With only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were far below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing ratings. This facility fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.