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RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST

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RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST is a non profit - corporation facility in NEWPORT NEWS, VA with 209 certified beds and a 1-star overall CMS rating. The facility has 50 deficiency records on file.

1000 OLD DENBEIGH BOULEVARD, NEWPORT NEWS, VA 23602

Phone: 7578752000

Overall Rating

1/5

Health Inspection

1/5

Staffing

1/5

Quality Measures

4/5

Long-Stay Quality

4/5

Facility Information

Provider Number
495071
Ownership
Non profit - Corporation
Provider Type
Medicare and Medicaid
Beds
209
Residents
196
In Hospital
No
County
Newport News City
Last Inspection
Dec 8, 2023

Staffing Data

RN Hours
0.49 (nat'l avg: 0.68)
LPN Hours
1.11
CNA Hours
1.76
Total Nursing Hours
3.36 (nat'l avg: 3.89)
PT Hours
0.05

What the CMS Record Reveals About RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST

RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST operates 209 certified beds in NEWPORT NEWS, VA with approximately 196 residents currently in care, and carries a CMS overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars. The overall score is a composite of three weighted sub-ratings published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: health inspection results (1★), staffing levels (1★), and quality measures (4★). Because CMS caps the overall score at the health-inspection tier and then adjusts up or down based on staffing and quality, the sub-scores often tell a sharper story than the headline star count alone — a 3-star facility with weak inspection history reads differently from one held back by thin staffing.

The inspection file contains 50 deficiency records from recent surveys, of which 3 reached the actual-harm or immediate-jeopardy threshold on the CMS scope-and-severity grid. No fines or payment denials have been assessed against this provider, suggesting issues — if any — did not rise to the enforcement threshold. Staffing is reported at 3.36 total nursing hours per resident day (national average 3.89), with RN coverage at 0.49 per resident day — the single staffing metric most strongly tied to resident outcomes in peer-reviewed literature.

Classified as "Non profit - Corporation" ownership and operating as a "Medicare and Medicaid" provider, RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST falls into a category where comparative context matters. National research consistently shows that ownership structure, staffing hours, and turnover are the three operational levers that correlate most strongly with resident outcomes — ratings and fines are lagging indicators of those upstream choices. For families evaluating this facility, the CMS record should be read alongside a site visit, direct conversation with current residents and their families, and review of the state health department's most recent inspection report — the star rating is a starting point, not a verdict. All data on this page is sourced from CMS Provider Data and the Nursing Home Compare program; always verify details directly with the facility or your state survey agency before making placement decisions.

Deficiency History (50 most recent)

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Aug 25, 2025 Tag: 0849

Arrange for the provision of hospice services or assist the resident in transferring to a facility that will arrange for the provision of hospice services.

Category: Administration Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 29, 2025

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Aug 25, 2025 Tag: 0755

Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 29, 2025

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Aug 25, 2025 Tag: 0697

Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 29, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Aug 25, 2025 Tag: 0690

Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 29, 2025

G — Isolated - Actual harm Aug 25, 2025 Tag: 0689

Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 29, 2025

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Aug 25, 2025 Tag: 0658

Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 29, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Aug 25, 2025 Tag: 0580

Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 29, 2025

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0725

Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift.

Category: Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0677

Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0676

Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0909

Regularly inspect all bed frames, mattresses, and bed rails (if any) for safety; and all bed rails and mattresses must attach safely to the bed frame.

Category: Environmental Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0812

Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

Category: Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0804

Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature.

Category: Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0758

Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0756

Ensure a licensed pharmacist perform a monthly drug regimen review, including the medical chart, following irregularity reporting guidelines in developed policies and procedures.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0755

Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0745

Provide medically-related social services to help each resident achieve the highest possible quality of life.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0740

Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0700

Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0699

Provide care or services that was trauma informed and/or culturally competent.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0698

Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0697

Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0695

Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0690

Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0658

Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0657

Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0656

Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0655

Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0641

Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0623

Provide timely notification to the resident, and if applicable to the resident representative and ombudsman, before transfer or discharge, including appeal rights.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0622

Not transfer or discharge a resident without an adequate reason; and must provide documentation and convey specific information when a resident is transferred or discharged.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0561

Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Dec 8, 2023 Tag: 0558

Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 22, 2024

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 21, 2020 Tag: 0761

Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 6, 2020

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 21, 2020 Tag: 0759

Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 6, 2020

G — Isolated - Actual harm Feb 21, 2020 Tag: 0689

Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Jan 15, 2020

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 21, 2020 Tag: 0686

Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 6, 2020

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Feb 21, 2020 Tag: 0657

Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 6, 2020

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 21, 2020 Tag: 0655

Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted

Category: Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 6, 2020

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 21, 2020 Tag: 0625

Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 6, 2020

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Feb 21, 2020 Tag: 0622

Not transfer or discharge a resident without an adequate reason; and must provide documentation and convey specific information when a resident is transferred or discharged.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 6, 2020

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Feb 21, 2020 Tag: 0584

Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 6, 2020

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Feb 21, 2020 Tag: 0578

Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 6, 2020

E — Pattern - Minimal harm Feb 21, 2020 Tag: 0561

Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice.

Category: Resident Rights Deficiencies

Corrected: Apr 6, 2020

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Aug 3, 2018 Tag: 0849

Arrange for the provision of hospice services or assist the resident in transferring to a facility that will arrange for the provision of hospice services.

Category: Administration Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 16, 2018

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Aug 3, 2018 Tag: 0761

Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 16, 2018

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Aug 3, 2018 Tag: 0760

Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 16, 2018

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Aug 3, 2018 Tag: 0757

Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.

Category: Pharmacy Service Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 16, 2018

G — Isolated - Actual harm Aug 3, 2018 Tag: 0697

Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 16, 2018

D — Isolated - Minimal harm Aug 3, 2018 Tag: 0690

Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.

Category: Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies

Corrected: Sep 16, 2018

Quality Measures

Measure Type Score Used in Rating
Percentage of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased Long Stay 9.9% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents who lose too much weight Long Stay 8.5% No
Percentage of long-stay residents with a catheter inserted and left in their bladder Long Stay 0.1% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection Long Stay 3.5% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms Long Stay 1.1% No
Percentage of long-stay residents who were physically restrained Long Stay 0.0% No
Percentage of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury Long Stay 2.3% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents assessed and appropriately given the pneumococcal vaccine Long Stay 98.8% No
Percentage of short-stay residents assessed and appropriately given the pneumococcal vaccine Short Stay 89.4% No
Percentage of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication Short Stay 0.6% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents whose ability to walk independently worsened Long Stay 12.3% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents who received an antianxiety or hypnotic medication Long Stay 17.8% No
Percentage of long-stay residents assessed and appropriately given the seasonal influenza vaccine Long Stay 96.6% No
Percentage of short-stay residents who were assessed and appropriately given the seasonal influenza vaccine Short Stay 83.3% No
Percentage of long-stay residents with pressure ulcers Long Stay 7.8% Yes
Percentage of long-stay residents with new or worsened bowel or bladder incontinence Long Stay 25.4% No
Percentage of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication Long Stay 18.1% Yes

Penalty History

No penalties on record.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the overall CMS rating for RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST?
RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST has an overall CMS rating of 1 out of 5 stars. This rating combines health inspection results (1★), staffing levels (1★), and quality measures (4★).
What are the staffing levels at RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST?
RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST reports 3.36 total nursing hours per resident day (national average: 3.89). RN hours are 0.49 per resident day (national average: 0.68).
How many beds does RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST have?
RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST has 209 certified beds with approximately 196 residents. The facility is located at 1000 OLD DENBEIGH BOULEVARD, NEWPORT NEWS, VA 23602.
Does RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST have any deficiencies on record?
Yes, RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST has 50 deficiencies on record from recent inspections. Of these, 3 are classified as causing actual harm or jeopardy.
Has RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST received any fines or penalties?
No, RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST has no fines or penalties on record.
Who owns RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST?
RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST is classified as "Non profit - Corporation" ownership. The facility type is "Medicare and Medicaid".
When was RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST last inspected?
The most recent health inspection for RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST was on Dec 8, 2023. The facility received a health inspection rating of 1 out of 5 stars.
What quality measures are tracked for RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST?
RIVERSIDE LIFELONG H & R WARWICK FOREST is evaluated on 17 quality measures, of which 8 are used in the CMS star rating calculation. These include measures for both long-stay and short-stay residents covering areas like infections, falls, pressure ulcers, and medication use.

Data Sources

Data source: CMS Nursing Home Compare. Ratings, staffing, deficiency, quality measure, and penalty data are from CMS Provider Data. For informational purposes only. Always verify information directly with the facility or your state health department.

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