Holladay Park Plaza

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the datapoints we considered on top of this nursing home's quality nursing hours was vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. The nursing grade consists of quite a few subcategories, most of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 5.7 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This was one of the highest totals we found. In addition, we found that a significant portion of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. On top of offering high levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in several of the quality measures we assessed. With below five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared as well as any nursing home the state in this category. This is usually a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Many pressure ulcers could be avoided by providing better nursing care and a policy of moving patients more frequently.

Tallying yet another strong category grade, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned a grade of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you CMS 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 area, this nursing home also received an impressive short-term care score, with a grade of A. This topped off a rare straight A profile. Short-term care grades are important for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. This nursing home is significantly above the national average in terms of its quantity of both registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents. In fact, it offered about one and a half times as much care per resident from both of these care providers than the typical facility provided. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that this nursing home was better than average in this area with 55.5 percent of its patients returning home.