Three Rivers Health and Rehab

To pair with its favorable overall score, we awarded this place a grade of A+ for inspections. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings aren't something to panic about.

This nursing home is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it received a score of B+. It outperformed most facilities in this area. Our short-term care scores are important for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing grades are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of turning a patient more often.

The final area we graded is long-term care, in which this nursing home was awarded a B-. Even though this proved to be its least impressive category rating, this is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. In computing our long-term care grades, we look at the assistance with daily living received by the facility's residents. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.6014 percent of its residents, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.