Pine Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing

Pine Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. This city is one of the largest cities in the country with has a population of 594,043 people. It looks like this facility is a subpar facility. A grade of this caliber indicates we found a few red flags. Keep in mind that Salt Lake City received a city grade of B, so should consider some other options in the city as well. The best thing we can say about this nursing home is that it didn't receive any F's in any of the categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

While we were not very complementary of this facility's overall grade, it actually received an impressive grade of A- in the area of nursing. The nursing rating analyzes quite a few components, however, the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The second best area we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.

The next category we graded is long-term care, where this facility received a grade of C in this category. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 94.61539 percent of its patients. This place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.76 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The final category we looked at is inspections. This ended up being this nursing home's worst grade. We gave it a D in this area. Since this information is compiled by government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our assessment. Our inspection grades weigh many items found on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. If you find severe deficiencies on the reports, this is typically the worst sign. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This particular facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility also received a substantiated complaint in the last few years. There seem to be no shortage of reasons to pass on this facility.