The Peaks Care and Rehab

We also found that this nursing home excelled at short-term care. We awarded them an A+ in this category. In the category of short-term care, we seek to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that 7.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

To complement its elite achievements in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A for its long-term care score. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This nursing home knocked it out of the park in this area.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. The nursing rating analyzes a handful of components, however, the most important consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Utah in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of moving a patient more frequently.

Wrapping up this facility's impressive resume, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of A for our inspections rating. With this score, the facility completes its straight A report card. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.