NeuroRestorative Utah

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. This is far better than its overall grade. Inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

An additional strength of this nursing home is its superb score in short-term care. We awarded them one of our more favorable scores in that category, with a score of A-. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is considered to be a fair measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. The nursing score includes several components, however, the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.7 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This figure is significantly below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. While this facility got docked a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in some of these quality metrics. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this area. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a patient even once per day.

Turning to the next category, this nursing home received a decent long-term care grade of C. Long-term care grades are based on the nursing home's amount of nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 98.89503 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.