Canyon Springs Post-Acute

We would like to point out that this nursing home's nursing score exceeded its overall score. This facility earned a B in this category, which is one of our better grades. In determining a facility's nursing score, we look at the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients as well as the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Another one of this facility's more favorable category scores came in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B. When facilities receive this type of grade in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 99.30556 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave this to chance. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We also gave this facility a middle of the pack grade in the area of short-term care, with a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. We found that this place was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is still important to determine whether this also correlates to a lower quality of care. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 4.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.

The last category we looked at is inspections. The nursing home received a C 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 focus on the severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were category G through L deficiencies. This indicates this facility avoided the more significant classes of deficiencies. We really did not consider anything on this place's inspection reports to be overly concerning.