Holladay Park Plaza

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ short-term care grade. With our short-term care rating, we seek to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 6.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This facility also received a very strong long-term care grade. Indeed, this is its second best category grade. In that category, this facility received a grade of A. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 98.630135 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better scores in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the last category we rated, this facility was given a very favorable grade of B+ in our nursing category. With this score, the nursing home finished off a very impressive profile. Our nursing grade weighs several subcategories, however, the primary consideration is the quantity of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.