Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized hospital-based facility in Salt Lake City, Utah. This nursing home is a highly rated facility, with an overall grade of B+. Even in a city of 26 other nursing homes, this nursing home stood out as a first-rate choice. As you will see below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category scores. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.
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Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- Government - County
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care grade. Our short-term care grade is generally used to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients that returned home from this facility. We found that 6.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Nurse Quality
This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our nursing rating is mostly tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a policy of turning patients even once per day.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home was awarded a favorable long-term care grade as well. We gave it one of our better scores in that category with a score of B+. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.833336 percent of its residents, which is higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Facility Inspections
In the final category we assessed, this nursing home received a good score in the area of inspections as well. We gave it a grade of B for that category. This facility didn't have any major weak links. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 6.55% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who suffered from pressure ulcers . We factor in this statistic in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 1.52% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Falls are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 4.21% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely linked to nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols minimizes the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 16.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term stay patients who are given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 20% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are administered to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 13.15% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients demonstrating symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 96.55% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 16.96% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 15.22% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 15.22% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 17.53% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Mt Olympus Rehabilitation Center, 74.76% of Resident
This is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Salt Lake City, UT
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- 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 A-minus
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