Accel at Longmont

In addition to having a decent overall grade, we also want to point out that this nursing home received favorable health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in this area, with a B+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report, which is still very impressive. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home also excelled in nursing, where it earned an B+. Our nursing rating is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 facility the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a policy of moving a resident even once per day.

This facility also was awarded a strong short-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded them a B in this area, which is one of our better. In calculating these short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Our final area is long-term care, where we gave this facility a grade of C in this category. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 95.588234 percent of its patients. This place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.