Stonehenge of South Jordan

Stonehenge of South Jordan is a small facility located in South Jordan, Utah. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is very favorable score. Based on our ratings, this place is just about as as good as it gets. This place's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection grades are tied to pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

In addition, this facility received elite marks in the category of short-term care. For this reason, it received one of our best grades in that category with a score of A+. In determining our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is typically a solid measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Remarkably, this facility provides about 1.5 times as many hours of services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we looked at. This is generally an excellent sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that returned home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy hours, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in this area with 64.4 percent of its residents returning home.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. The nursing score assesses several datapoints, however, the paramount consideration is the quantity of nurse hours spent with patients. This place boasts a really impressive 4.5 hours of nursing care per patient per day, of which a significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses. This is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of offering impressive levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any nursing home in the state when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these statistics as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a B-. Even though this is its worst category rating, this is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Long-term care grades are commonly used to assess a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. After looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. Unfortunately, it does not look like this nursing home submitted information on its vaccination levels. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.