Canyon Springs Health and Rehabilitation Center

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent government inspection reports in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this category. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home received its next best category score in the category of long-term care. We awarded this facility a B- in this category, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. Our long-term care scores are more meaningful for patients needing more traditional assistance associated with activities of daily living. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility was awarded just a D in this area. With our short-term care assessment, we attempt to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. With its weak rating in this area, we weren't stunned to discover this nursing home offered substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. The last metric we considered in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics sunk this facility's short-term care score.

Moving on to our fourth area, we awarded this facility a D in nursing. This was the facility's least impressive category grade. The nursing score features many subcategories. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this facility's nursing grade significantly.