Utah

• Utah surged higher in overall nursing home ranking, up four spots to climb into the Top 5 nursing home states.
• Utah is 1 of only 4 states that scored an overall superior grade in every nursing home report card (Rhode Island, Hawaii, and Maine are the other states).
• Utah strengthened its overall ranking with improved rankings in 6 out of 8 nursing home statistical measures.
• While Utah’s nursing homes reported an uptick in direct care hours, the percentage of homes with an above average direct care staffing rating took a nosedive, dropping nearly 30 percent since the last report card.
• While direct care staffing hours slipped, Utah increased professional nurse staffing levels, averaging nearly two hours of professional nurse care per resident daily.
• Nearly 1 in 4 Utah nursing homes scored a deficiency free inspection, that’s a 14 percent improvement over the previous report card and the third highest ranking in comparison to other states.
• While more Utah nursing homes performed at a higher level, it’s unfortunate to note that the frequency of severe deficiencies also increased (more than 50 percent since the last report card), plummeting the state’s ranking from No. 17 to No. 34 overall for this category.
• Utah nursing home care ranks first out of the Rocky Mountain Region’s seven states.

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