Coral Desert Rehabilitation and Care is a nursing home in Saint George, Utah, a city with a total of 74,901 people. With an overall score of A, this is undoubtedly an elite nursing home. In fact, this facility has the distinction of being one of the top 25 nursing homes in Utah. This also worked out to be a very consistent facility with consistently strong grades in each of our categories. More information about its category grades is available below.
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Coral Desert Rehabilitation and Care
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
1490 East Foremaster Drive, Building B,
Saint George UT 84790
60.66% estimated occupancy 1
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Lymphedema Care
- Aquatic Therapy
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Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
We also found that this facility excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Short-term care grades are critical for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this nursing home also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that area with an A. Our inspection scores are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. While this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
Building on its fine resume, this nursing home also was given a dominant long-term care score, with a score of A. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information about vaccinations. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
Turning to the next area, this nursing home also performed well in our nursing category. In fact, we gave it an A- in this area. This rounded out truly elite report card. When computing a nursing home's nursing rating, we weigh the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Coral Desert Rehabilitation and Care Quality Metrics
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Coral Desert Rehabilitation and Care, 13.64 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Coral Desert Rehabilitation and Care, 71.49% Percentage of Resident
This indicates the percent of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living often correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Dixie Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 0.26 miles away1380 East Medical Center Drive Saint George Utah 84790Voluntary non-profit - Private(435) 251-2100
Nearby Dialysis
- Dixie Dialysis Center0.33 miles away720 S River Rd Ste d1100 Saint George Utah 84790CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (435) 656-0857
- Liberty Dialysis - St George (Fmc)0.6 miles away624 S 1000 E Ste 101 Saint George Utah 84790CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (435) 656-4596
- Hurricane Dialysis Center15.13 miles away48 S 2500 W Ste 100 Hurricane Utah 84737Dialysis Stations: 12 (435) 635-0399