Orem Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

Although we did not rate this facility well overall, we want to point out its decent grade of B- in the category of nursing. Our nursing grade considers a number of datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This place provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics. While this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed well in this subcategory. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a resident more often.

We also awarded this facility a respectable grade in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a B-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is often a fair assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. It provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is still important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

This nursing home was awarded its third most favorable category grade in the area of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is a decent score. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled nursing and healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. After assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 95.87156 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning the final category of government inspections, we gave this nursing home a D for our inspection category. This proved to be this facility's weakest category. We take a weak score in this category very seriously. Inspection grades account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. You should be especially cautious when considering a nursing home with severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This particular facility was assessed 7 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.