Canyon Rim Care Center

Canyon Rim Care Center is a facility located in Salt Lake City, Utah which has 594,043 people. With an overall score of B-, this is likely a middle of the road facility. Based on our assessment, this facility would be a solid choice for quite a few people. This place is stronger in some categories than others, but it didn't have any bad scores in any of the major categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to earning a great overall grade, this nursing home really excelled in nursing, where it received an A. Few nursing homes did better in this category. There are a number of factors within this grade. Most of the criteria relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home boasts an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis, of which more than an hour of those were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. Finally, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls. Many pressure ulcers can be avoided by providing better nursing care and having a protocol of moving residents more often.

This facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned an B+. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to patient safety or health. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

This facility was given its next best category score in the area of short-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this area, which is a respectable score. Our short-term care scores are vital for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One reason for this place's strong score in this category is that it provides more care from registered nurses to its residents than a typical nursing home. The final statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 30.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Turning to the last category, this facility received a decent long-term care score of C. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. This facility's vaccination records weren't as favorable a few of its other data points in this category, such as its nursing hours. It gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 89.14027 percent of its patients. We would love to see some improvement in this area next year. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.