Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center

Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Center is located in the densely populated metropolitan area of Albuquerque, New Mexico which has a total of 641,349 people. We gave it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the road score. Based on our analysis, this nursing home likely wouldn't be a bad choice. This nursing home didn't meet our expectations in all of our categories, but it did not receive any rock-bottom grades either. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

We awarded this nursing home an A+ for our short-term care score. This score is much more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more than seven hours of care per week from registered nurses to each resident. This is really the gold standard in this area, as it's about 50% higher than the average facility's level of registered nurse staffing. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. It fared as well as just about any nursing home in New Mexico with 69.7 percent of its residents returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents return home.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. Nursing proved to be its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an B. In calculating our nursing ratings, we weigh both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This place provides an impressive 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Out of this total, nearly one fourth of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is among the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Finally, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing ratings. This facility was on the weaker side in several of the metrics we assess, with below average scores for minimizing its patients' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Moving on to our inspection category, we gave this facility just a D. Our inspection grades factor in many items found on the nursing home's inspection reports. If you see too many deficiencies on the inspection reports, this is generally the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular nursing home was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility also received 3 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

Turning to the next area, we awarded this facility a grade of D in our long-term care category. This was the nursing home's least impressive category score. In a long-term care setting, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 94.91525 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this place also was not as bad as we expected at keeping its patients out of the hospital. While it had 1.78 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad since it had some more complex patients.