Provo Rehabilitation and Nursing

Provo Rehabilitation and Nursing is the lone option we identified in Provo, Utah. Featuring an overall grade of C, this is likely a middle of the road facility. Based on our analysis, there are certainly much worse nursing homes out there. The best part of this nursing home's profile was is its short-term care rating. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

We want to note that this facility earned a much better grade for short-term care than its overall score. In fact, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A-. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Utah in this area with 57.2 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

This nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an B. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Nursing scores are mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides high levels of nursing care, with an average of 4.2 hours per patient each day. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes provide. Finally, this place also performed well in many of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering falls which lead to serious injury, this facility outpaced the national average. This is usually a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility earned a good score in the area of inspections as well. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple of minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

The final category we looked at was long-term care, which proved to be this facility's weakest area. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this area, which is obviously a major disappointment. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category may not provide the kind of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities offer. This facility's vaccination statistics weren't as favorable as its nursing hours. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to just 57.038834 percent of its residents. We would like to see some improvement herein this statistic next year. Surprisingly, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 1.15 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.