Life Care Center of Salt Lake City

Life Care Center of Salt Lake City is in Salt Lake City, Utah. This city is among the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the nation with has 594,043 people. We awarded this facility an overall rating of B+, making it one of the ten highest rated nursing homes in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City offers many other nursing homes, however, it is unlikely you will need to visit too many others. This one looks like a first-rate option. The best part of this nursing home's strong profile was its short-term care grade. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph

One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received an A+ in short-term care. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. In our short-term care category, we try to create a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country in this area with 65 percent of its patients returning home.

Adding to its impressive profile, this nursing home also performed at a high level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with an A. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident health or safety. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. When computing our nursing grades, we factor in both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home boasts an impressive 4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, of which more than one hour of these hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. Lastly, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. In terms of the number of its patients sustaining falls leading to major injury, this place performed as well as any facility in the state.

The final area we rated is long-term care, which proved to be this facility's weakest category. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is obviously somewhat disappointing. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to providing impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 98.44961 percent of its residents. These marks are obviously more respectable than some of its other statistics in this category. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.65 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.