Accel at Longmont

We awarded this nursing home one of our higher grades in short-term care, where it received an A-. This is much better than its overall grade, which was certainly not elite. In our short-term care grade, we endeavor to craft a fair measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also received a strong inspection grade. Inspection grades are based on the nursing home's recent government inspections. We gave this facility an above average grade of B in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Another reason we rated this facility so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. There are a variety of criteria within this area. Many of the subcategories relate to nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to our last area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D in long-term care. This was the facility's worst category score. Of course, this score pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.73418 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.