Accura Healthcare of Ogden

In addition to receiving a quality overall score, this nursing home also received excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that category, with an A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this area usually have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few relatively minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing grade is primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its remarkable profile, this facility also was given a strong short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. Our short-term care scores are probably most critical for residents in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. We gave this nursing home an acceptable score in this area, with a C. While this isn't as dominant as some of this nursing home's other scores, it is nevertheless not the end of the world. Our long-term care grades are based on a facility's volume of nursing services. This includes a broad scope of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. After assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.