Riverside Nursing & Rehab Center

    1305 Alexander St, Centralia, WA 98531
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Compassionate organized care with warmth

    I've been impressed by Three Rivers - a beautiful, spotlessly renovated, home-like place with warm, professional staff who genuinely care. Nurses/CNAs are skilled and responsive, keep my family informed, and provided strong rehab and compassionate end-of-life care; therapy and management are organized and communicative. I'm grateful for the attentive, family-like atmosphere, pet visits and individualized activities, and would recommend their team.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.77·(40)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.3
    • Staff

      3.5
    • Meals

      1.0
    • Amenities

      2.9
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Friendly, compassionate staff
    • Well-trained nursing personnel
    • Attentive CNAs and nursing care
    • Consistent family communication
    • Clean, organized interior environment
    • Home-like, positive atmosphere
    • Appropriate for end-of-life and palliative care

    Cons

    • Chronic understaffing affecting care availability
    • Inconsistent responsiveness to resident calls and family inquiries
    • Gaps in clinical staff training and competency
    • Inadequate facility maintenance and HVAC control
    • Sanitation and moisture-control concerns in bathing and sanitary areas
    • Overcrowding and constrained space management
    • Unclear billing practices for post-rehab skilled nursing
    • Inflexible dietary-accommodation policies
    • Unreliable delivery/service logistics
    • Corporate ownership with profit-focused operational priorities
    • Past state survey deficiencies (2018)

    Summary of reviews

    Summary of care quality and staff: Reviews describe a bifurcated picture of clinical care. Many families emphasize compassionate, attentive nursing and CNA support, with staff who create a family-like, reassuring environment and keep relatives informed. At the same time, other accounts describe inconsistent responsiveness, delays in attending to resident needs, and competency gaps among some clinical staff. These contrasting reports suggest variability in care quality that may depend on staffing levels, shift coverage, or unit-specific practice.

    Staffing and training: Staff are frequently characterized as warm and professional, and several comments indicate strong bedside manner and effective family communication. However, understaffing is a recurring theme; reviewers link reduced staffing levels to slower response times and decreased availability of routine assistance. There are also repeated concerns about training and competency for some nurses and CNAs, indicating potential need for stronger orientation, supervision, or continuing education programs.

    Dining and special-diet management: The facility receives mixed feedback on dietary services. Some praise routine meal service and organization, but there are explicit concerns about the facility’s approach to dietary restrictions—specifically, a requirement that an allergy be documented before accommodations are made—which some families found inflexible. Those making dietary accommodations inquiries should confirm policies and documentation requirements beforehand.

    Activities and atmosphere: Several reviewers describe a warm, home-like atmosphere and a generally happy resident population, which supports the facility’s suitability for social comfort and end-of-life care. Specific information about organized activities is limited in the reviews provided; prospective residents may wish to ask for the current activity schedule and examples during a tour to assess programming consistency.

    Facilities and infection-control/maintenance: Facility-condition reports are mixed. Many reviewers note clean, well-organized interiors, while others raise concerns about maintenance backlogs and building-system issues—examples include heating/exhaust problems, damp conditions, and moisture-control problems in bathing areas. These conditions are operational issues that can affect sanitation and comfort; they warrant direct inspection and clarification of the facility’s maintenance and remediation plans during a visit.

    Management, billing, and operations: Operational concerns include perceived corporate, profit-driven priorities and opaque billing practices—specifically an extra charge for conversion to skilled nursing after rehab—that have frustrated families. There are also mentions of unreliable delivery or service logistics and overcrowding pressures. The facility has a noted history with a state survey in 2018; prospective families should request up-to-date survey results, corrective-action information, and current occupancy levels to understand recent operational performance.

    Notable patterns and recommendations for families: The overall pattern in reviews is polarized: several families report excellent, compassionate care and strong communication, while others describe slow responses, maintenance and sanitation concerns in specific areas, and billing or policy frustrations. This variability suggests that experiences may differ by unit, shift, or over time. Prospective residents and families should (1) tour the specific unit where the resident would be placed, (2) ask about current staffing ratios and staff training/turnover, (3) review recent state surveys and corrective actions, (4) inspect bathroom and HVAC conditions, and (5) clarify billing and dietary-accommodation policies in writing. Doing so will help align expectations with current facility operations.

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    Medicare Ratings

    5·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Ratings from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Care Compare). View on Medicare.gov

    Location

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    Riverside Nursing & Rehab Center is located at 1305 Alexander St, Centralia, WA, 98531.

    About Riverside Nursing & Rehab Center

    Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center sits on Alexander Street in Centralia and runs as a skilled nursing facility with 83 licensed beds, including three private rooms, inside a modern and recently updated 43-room building, and what you've got there is a place that takes care of adults who need both medical help and different kinds of therapy, where staff help with things like IV antibiotic management, speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, respiratory therapy, and special help for people living with Alzheimer's disease and other memory problems. It's operated by Extendicare, a large company with over 270 medical centers across the US and Canada, and they offer both short-term rehab after hospital stays and long-term stays for people who need more care, and even have outpatient rehabilitation for folks who don't live there but might need therapy on their road to recovery. Residents get personalized care plans and skilled nursing services, and the center tries to keep things comfortable and homelike, with staff delivering care for varying needs and working to always track and improve care results, and while there isn't a big list of amenities, the main focus is on health, safety, and making sure each person gets the kind of care their situation calls for, and they'll take both private pay and Medicaid for those skilled nursing services, with everything included at no added charge, but at the moment they're not bringing in any new residents.

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