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Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center

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  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A-plus
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373 East 10th Avenue,
Springfield CO 81073

(719) 523-4501

71.07% estimated occupancy 1

Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center is in Springfield, Colorado, a city with a total of 1,932 people. This facility is among the top facilities we assessed. In fact, it received our very best grade. We couldn't find many negative things to say about this facility. Its ratings are impeccable. If you look below, you can see this place's category grades, which are equally strong as its overall rating.

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Quick Details

  • No Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Government - Hospital district
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Recreational Therapy

Awards

Top Nursing Home in Colorado badge

Top Nursing Home in Colorado Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2022)
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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also fared well in long-term care, where it earned an impressive grade of A+. Few facilities fared better in this area. Facilities that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-plus

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility excelled in our nursing rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Nursing scores are primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 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 place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a patient more frequently.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

The next category we looked at was inspections, where this facility also received an A+ grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

Turning to our fourth category, this nursing home also excelled in the short-term care category. We gave it a grade of A- for that area. This wrapped up truly elite profile. Short-term care ratings are vital for prospective residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-plus

In Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center, 2.38% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure indicates the percent of long-term residents who developed pressure ulcers . We consider this statistic when determining both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center, 4.64% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are considered to be an indicator of nursing care . Falls which result in injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: D

In Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center, 5.3% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center, 26% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for many medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center, 23.18% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A-minus

In Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center, 0.73% of Patients

Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center, 98.81% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center, 17.27% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of decline of a patient's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center, 21.76% of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: C

In Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care Center, 21.76% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care.