Canyon Rim Care Center

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility earned even higher marks in the area of nursing. We gave it one of our best grades in this category with an A-. Our nursing grade weighs a number of factors. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning residents more frequently.

Another one of this facility's above average category grades came in the area of short-term care. We gave them one of our stronger scores in that category, with a grade of B+. Our short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding yet another impressive category grade, we gave this facility a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A few minor dings are not necessarily something to panic about.

The final category we graded ended up being this facility's worst area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still gave it a respectable grade of C for our long-term care category. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care grades. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 97.87234 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.