Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center turns out to be one of a host of options you can choose from in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This facility was given an overall grade of C, which is a solid score. You could certainly do worse than this place. The best part of this place's profile is is its short-term care rating. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.
Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
It should also be noted that this nursing home' short-term care grade outpaced its overall grade. In fact, we gave it a B+ for its short-term care grade, which is one of our better scores. This helped its overall grade. Our short-term care grade is often used to assess a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home's second best category is inspections. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.
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Nurse Quality
Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned an A+ nursing rating. This is as good as it gets in this category. In calculating a facility's nursing score, we assess the number of hours nurses are with patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we analyzed is long-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is a very poor grade. This is certainly a significant disappointment. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated just 52.38095 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center, 8.5% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint is is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that are suffering from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable indicator of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center, 3.08% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who have had a fall which resulted in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in determining our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center, 1.47% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections could be associated with poorer hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center, 16.78% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients who are administered antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications are not medically indicated. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center, 13.49% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term residents that were given antianxiety medication. These drugs are commonly prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center, 3.19% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients demonstrating symptoms of depression. Increased levels of depression may imply worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center, 88.36% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center, 16.72% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center, 15.18 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center, 65.79% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts believe this is a measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Albuquerque, NM
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-minus
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