Layton, Utah is a relatively small city with 67,651 people. It features only one nursing home, which is less than we were hoping for. Fortunately,, this city's sole nursing home received a top-notch grade of A+, so at least you have one quality option. We also assessed the nursing homes in the nearby city of Roy. We found the facility in Layton to be rated much higher than most of the nursing homes in Roy. Headlining this facility's remarkable profile is its short-term care score, which we will address in the next section.
On top of being an excellent facility overall, this city's nursing home really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Very few nursing homes earned a better grade in this area. Short-term care grades are commonly used to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This nursing home also performed spectacularly well in our long-term care category, where we gave it an A. Rounding out its straight A report card, Layton received top notch grades for our inspections and nursing areas as well.