Canyon Rim Care Center

Although we did not rate this facility well overall, we want to note its decent government inspection reports in recent years. We awarded it a relatively respectable score of B- in this category. We would argue that one of the most important factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. Although this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, in addition to the quantity of time the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it scored well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The third category we analyzed is short-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a decent grade of B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. We were surprised to find that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. It offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.

Turning to the final area, this nursing home was awarded an acceptable long-term care grade of C. In forming these long-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 88.54626 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is quite a few points lower than the national average. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.