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Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home

  • Nursing Home
  • For people with disabilities
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: A-plus
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Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home's website

1551 North Main Street,
Payson UT 84651

(801) 465-5400

96.48% estimated occupancy 1

With an address in Payson, Utah, Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home is one of just a few facilities in the city. It looks like this nursing home is one of the highest-rated nursing homes we assessed. In fact, it received the absolute highest grade. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top ten percentile of all facilities in the nation. If you look further down this page, you will see this facility's category scores, which appear to be just as strong as its overall grade.

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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 Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pain Management
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Total Parenteral Nutrition

Awards

Best Nursing Home in Utah badge

Best Nursing Home in Utah Awards 2019

Best Nursing Home in Payson, Utah badge

Best Nursing Home in Payson, Utah Awards 2019

Best Nursing Home in Utah badge

Best Nursing Home in Utah Awards 2020

Best Nursing Home in Payson, Utah badge

Best Nursing Home in Payson, Utah Awards 2020

Top Nursing Home in Utah badge

Top Nursing Home in Utah Awards 2021

Best Nursing Home in Payson, Utah badge

Best Nursing Home in Payson, Utah Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

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Nurse Quality

Grade: A-plus

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. The nursing score analyzes several factors, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning a resident more frequently.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Not many nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to cause an immediate risk 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

Grade: A

Turning our third area, this nursing home was awarded first-rate short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A in this area. Our short-term care scores are considered to be most important for those in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A

The fourth area we looked at was long-term care, where this facility was awarded an A. This finished off a very impressive report card. Very few facilities earned an A- or better in every single category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 99.268295 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-minus

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 5.56% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint is is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that suffered from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are an indicator of quality of care.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 2.93% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls which result in injury are often caused by poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 1.99% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely the result of facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision can reduce the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Note that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 5.64% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be helpful for many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 17.46% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure gauges the percent of long-term care residents receiving antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: D

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 18.23% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 99.63% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 9.5% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could indicate erosion of a patient's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: C

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 9.76% of Residents

Measures the percent of long-term residents who retained mobility levels. Some experts would argue that mobility is critical to patients health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 9.76% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: F

In Mervyn Sharp Bennion Central Utah Veterans Home, 57.25% of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Mountain View HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 2.37 miles away1000 East 100 North Payson Utah 84651Proprietary(801) 465-7100
  • Utah State HospitalPsychiatric 15.03 miles away1300 East Center Street Provo Utah 84605Government - State(801) 344-4400
  • Utah Valley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 15.84 miles away1034 North 500 West Provo Utah 84604Voluntary non-profit - Private(801) 373-7850
  • Orem Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.67 miles away331 North 400 West Orem Utah 84057Voluntary non-profit - Private(801) 714-3300

Nearby Dialysis

  • Payson Regional Dialysis2.13 miles away15 S 1000 E Ste 50 Payson Utah 84651Dialysis Stations: 12 (801) 465-2060
  • Davita Mt. Nebo Dialysis2.91 miles away555 W Sr 164 Suite 101 Salem Utah 84653Dialysis Stations: 12 (801) 798-7903
  • Utah Valley Dialysis (Dva)16 miles away1055 N 500 W Ste 221 Provo Utah 84604CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (801) 373-5400
  • University of Utah Provo Dialysis Center16.55 miles away1675 N Freedom Blvd Ste 15 Provo Utah 84604Dialysis Stations: 14 (801) 373-0169
  • Fresenius Kidney Care Utah Valley19.1 miles away121 S Orem Blvd Orem Utah 84058Dialysis Stations: 13 (801) 802-3852