Granite Creek Health & Rehabilitation Center

Granite Creek Health & Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Prescott, Arizona. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-graded facilities we assessed. This nursing home received one of the most impressive scores that we offer. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the nation. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's remarkable profile is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

One of the reasons this place turned out to be a great nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is just about as good as it gets in this category. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was dominant in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a score of A. Only a select group of nursing homes fared better in this area. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to create a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. This nursing home is respectable both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. The final item we considered in this category is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This place fared as well as just about any facility in Arizona in this area with 67.7 percent of its residents returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

The third category we looked at is long-term care. This nursing home was awarded a very positive long-term care grade, with a B+ in the category. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 95.19651 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

The final category we looked at is nursing. This nursing home was given a better than average nursing rating this year, with a grade of B. While this was not quite as elite as some of its other grades, this remains one of the better grades in that area. We weighed the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses spent with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.