Aspen Ridge West Transitional Rehab

Aspen Ridge West Transitional Rehab is in Salt Lake City, Utah. This city is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the nation with has a total of 594,043 people. This facility is ranked among the highest-rated facilities we looked at. Being awarded an A+ in our grading system requires superb performance across the board. Even in a city offering 26 nursing homes, this nursing home caught our attention as a very fine selection. Scroll down to see this facility's category grades, which also impressed us. You really can't do much better than a straight A report card.

In addition to faring well in its overall grade, this facility received high marks in our short-term care rating as well. As a result, it received our highest grade in that category with an A+. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This place is the gold standard in terms of skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it supplied approximately 1.5 times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical nursing home. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in Utah in this area with 66.9 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility also earned an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the few places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This is based on the place's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this area is one of the biggest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category generally have few severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The third category we analyzed is long-term care. Adding to its high-end profile, this nursing home also performed well in that area. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A in that area. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care grades. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to our final category, this nursing home was given a strong nursing score. We gave it an A- in this area, resulting in this facility receiving straight A's. The nursing rating is based on several subcategories. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home boasts a really impressive 5.7 hours of nursing care per resident daily, of which a significant percentage was provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. This is one of the higher totals of nursing hours we found at any facility. In addition to providing high levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in the country when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.