St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation is one of six nursing homes in Saint George, Utah. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of F. Saint George received a more impressive city grade of B+, so there are far better options in the city worth considering. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
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St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
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Facility Inspections
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Short-term Care Quality
Remarkably, we gave this nursing home a B- for our short-term care rating, which is not a bad grade. Our short-term care ratings are important for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final item we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.
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Nurse Quality
We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. The nursing score assesses a handful of datapoints, however, the primary one is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This place offered only 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to the fourth category, this nursing home did not fare very well in this category either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is really as bad as it gets. Long-term care ratings in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 91.304344 percent of its residents. This is somewhat lower than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 19.51% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure tells you the percent of long-term stay residents who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 1.74% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term residents which have sustained falls which resulted in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 1.77% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term patients that experienced a UTI. UTI's may be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can also be skewed for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 17.51% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 15.86% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients given antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly used to treat patients experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 16.27% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms. High rates of depression could be a sign a less hospitable environment.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 93.97% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 8.68% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 14% of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 14% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In St George Bella Terra Nursing and Rehabilitation, 51.98% of Resident
This metric measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements.
Scores for Saint George, UT
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Saint George, Utah has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Dixie Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.44 miles away1380 East Medical Center Drive Saint George Utah 84790Voluntary non-profit - Private(435) 251-2100
Nearby Dialysis
- Liberty Dialysis - St George (Fmc)0.58 miles away624 S 1000 E Ste 101 Saint George Utah 84790CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (435) 656-4596
- Dixie Dialysis Center0.65 miles away720 S River Rd Ste d1100 Saint George Utah 84790CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (435) 656-0857
- Hurricane Dialysis Center15.24 miles away48 S 2500 W Ste 100 Hurricane Utah 84737Dialysis Stations: 12 (435) 635-0399