Aspen Living Center

Although we didn't give this nursing home a good overall score, we actually gave it a strong grade in the area of nursing, where it earned a B. This is better than most nursing homes in this area. Our nursing score considers several factors. The most important one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Another one of this facility's better category scores was in the category of short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually outpaced most nursing homes in this category. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Unfortunately, with a grade of D in the inspection category, this facility performed relatively poorly in that area. One of the most important factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This facility had one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by CMS had potential to pose actual harm to residents. Finally, we want to point out that this facility received large government fines in recent years totaling more than $100,000. This often signifies that a facility's poor performance has been an issue for more than one year.

The final area we analyzed was long-term care, proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. If you are looking for services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.