Canyon Rim Care Center

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home really excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A. Nursing scores are mostly based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility received a strong short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B+. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This score is frequently a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

We also wanted to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of B+ in this category. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Our final area is long-term care, where we gave this facility a C in this category. Our long-term care ratings are more important for patients in need of more conventional assistance associated with activities of daily living. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 92.21557 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.