Life Care Center of Salt Lake City is an average-sized nursing home located in Salt Lake City, Utah. This nursing home is an A rated facility. This facility was given one of the top ratings we offer. A grade of this caliber requires superb marks across the board. Even in a city featuring 26 nursing homes, this facility caught our attention as a fine choice. This nursing home also received consistently good grades in all of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
Life Care Center of Salt Lake City
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to performing well overall, this nursing home earned nearly flawless government inspections. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A+. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't deem 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.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also received a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being this nursing home's second most impressive category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to assess indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from the facility. We found that 6.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.
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Long-term Care Quality
We also want to emphasize the fact that this nursing home was given a high-end score of A- in our long-term care area. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the nursing home population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Nurse Quality
The final area we graded was nursing, in which this facility was given a grade of B. Believe it or not, this turned out to be this facility's worst category. A facility could be doing a lot worse when it's lowest score still is better than most facilities. When calculating a facility's nursing score, we weigh the amount of time nurses are seeing patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Life Care Center of Salt Lake City Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 6.04% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 3.56% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are routinely associated with lower quality nursing care. Better nursing protocols can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 2.65% of Patients had UTIs
This metric tells you the percent of long-term patients that suffered from a UTI. UTI's may be an indicator of a nursing home with worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric can also be skewed for some facilities due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 13.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents who are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 21.58% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 10.85% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms. High rates of depression could reveal worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 83% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 14% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 18.79% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 18.79 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 10.55 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Life Care Center of Salt Lake City, 72.2% Percentage of Resident
This is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Salt Lake City, UT
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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- University of Utah Hospitals and ClinicsAcute Care Hospitals 6.84 miles away50 North Medical Drive Salt Lake City Utah 84132Government - State(801) 581-2121
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Nearby Dialysis
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- Intermountain Medical Center Dialysis Services2.06 miles away74 West Vine Street Salt Lake City Utah 84107CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 28 (801) 507-9000
- West Valley Dialysis Clinic4.68 miles away3854 W 5400 S Salt Lake City Utah 84129CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (801) 969-6801
- Utah Dialysis Lab5.41 miles away1000 S Main St Ste 105 Salt Lake City Utah 84101Dialysis Stations: 19 (801) 408-1400
- Oquirrh Artificial Kidney Center5.48 miles away5320 South 2700 West Salt Lake City Utah 84129CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (801) 417-9900
- South Valley Dialysis Center5.91 miles away8750 S Sandy Pkwy Sandy Utah 84070Dialysis Stations: 17 (801) 233-8745
- Kolff Dialysis Center/Univ. Of Utah6.02 miles away423 Wakara Way Suite 200 Salt Lake City Utah 84108Dialysis Stations: 17 (801) 581-3981
- Primary Children's Dialysis Center6.73 miles away81 North Mario Capecchi Dr Salt Lake City Utah 84113Dialysis Stations: 6 (801) 662-7600