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Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center's website

163 East 1000 North,
Richfield UT 84701

(435) 896-8211

39.79% estimated occupancy ¹

Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center is an average-sized nursing home in Richfield, Utah. This facility appears to be ranked among the higher-graded facilities we looked at. A grade in this range requires first-rate marks across the board. In fact, this nursing home ended up being one of the top 50 facilities in Utah. As you can find below, this nursing home also performed well in our category grades. It is hard to poke holes in this facility's profile.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Medication Management
Speech Therapy
Stroke Recovery
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management
Colostomy Care
Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Total Parenteral Nutrition

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Facility Inspections

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home earned near flawless health inspections recently. We gave them an A+ in this area. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was given a dominant grade of A- in our long-term care category. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia is often a life or death condition for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

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Short-term Care Quality

Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our higher grades in our short-term care category as well, with a B+. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This score is often a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Nurse Quality

The last category we rated ended up being this nursing home's worst area. Nevertheless, even its weakest link would be a highlight for most nursing homes. We gave it a favorable grade of B in nursing. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This nursing home fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented with better nursing care.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 5.97% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 8.89% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients that had a fall which resulted in serious injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of falls resulting in injuries may be an indicator of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 2.24% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to insufficient hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 6.3% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric indicates the percent of long-term residents which are prescribed antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 35.61% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 6.92% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term care patients showing symptoms of depression. Some experts would argue this is a reasonable measure of quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 100% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 3.05% of Patients

This is the percent of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 3% of Residents

This indicates the percent of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 0.19 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 3% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 15.71% of Patients

This datapoint measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Richfield Rehabilitation and Care Center, 92.48% of Resident

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue that this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.