Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center

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 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an B. Few places fared better in this category. Our nursing score is mostly based on the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 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 nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also found that this facility has earned favorable government inspections in recent years. In fact, we awarded it a B- in this category. This is better than many nursing homes in this category. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

This facility's weakest category was long-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. We gave it an F for this category. Even with several solid scores in other areas, this score is still alarming so we would like to to make sure you are aware. When facilities receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is typically a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home vaccinated 51.21951 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit less than the national average. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.