Stonehenge of South Jordan

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility received an A+ for short-term care. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents that returned home from this facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

Turning to our inspection category, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the facility's recent government inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also received a top-shelf long-term care score. This actually turned out to be this facility's third best category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A. For prospective patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding vaccinations. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In our last area, this nursing home also was awarded an impressive nursing rating, with a grade of A-. This wrapped up a rare straight A report card. There are a number of data points included in this grade. Most of the criteria relate to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.