Hurricane Health and Rehabilitation

Located in Hurricane, Utah, Hurricane Health and Rehabilitation is the only option we identified in this area. We gave this facility an A+ overall grade, ranking it in the top ten percent of all facilities in the nation. We flat out can not say enough great things about this place. Headlining this place's stellar profile is its short-term care rating, which you can find in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a strong nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in our short-term care rating, where it received an A+. With our short-term care rating, we seek to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the nursing home's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This facility excelled at the highest level in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It offered about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the average nursing home. This is an excellent sign. The last item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Utah in this area with 69.5 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

This facility also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the rare facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This score is based on the nursing home's inspection reports. Inspection scores are based on several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspections. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our third category, this facility was given first-rate long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in this area. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 98.27586 percent of its patients. This is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths for the senior population. The last statistic we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 2.64 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

In the last category we looked at, this nursing home was given a very favorable grade of A- in our nursing category. With this grade, the facility topped off a straight A report card. When calculating our nursing grades, we look at both nursing hours and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident daily. Approximately one-fourth of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled nurses. This is an impressive ratio of skilled nursing care. We weight these hours performed by these types of nurses more in determining our nursing scores. 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 reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.