Paramount Health and Rehabilitation

Paramount Health and Rehabilitation is an average-sized nursing home located in Salt Lake City, Utah. This nursing home received an overall grade of B-, which is a solid grade. This facility seems to have some things working in its favor. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A-. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This indicates that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

In addition, we also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded strong short-term care marks this year. We gave them one of our more impressive scores in that area, with a grade of B+. This turned out to be the facility's second highest score. In determining these short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to formulate a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that it fared better than most facilities in this area with 54 percent of its residents returning home.

One of this facility's better category grades was in the area of nursing care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. There are a variety of criteria included in this area. Most of the datapoints reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality measures in calculating our nursing ratings. This place was above average in two of the major metrics we assessed, including minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

The final area we scored was long-term care, which was this facility's weakest area. We gave this facility a D in that category. Unfortunately, this category hurt the facility's overall grade to some degree. For patients looking for a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.93024 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.51 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.