Meadow Brook Rehabilitation and Nursing

Meadow Brook Rehabilitation and Nursing is a small nursing home located in Salt Lake City, Utah. This nursing home received an overall grade of D, which is a relatively poor score. As far as we can see, we would be very reluctant to recommend this nursing home. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection score. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category scores

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that area, which is one of our best scores. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid nursing homes that had too many deficiencies. This place was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home's second most favorable category came in the area of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this facility a grade of B-. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated just 75.71429 percent of its residents for pneumonia. The last statistic we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.64 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted metric was not as bad.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Nursing grades are tied to nurse staffing levels. This place averaged only 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we looked at was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area, which is a poor score. In our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 27.4 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics doomed this nursing home's short-term care score.