Aspen Living Center

This facility's nursing grade was notably better than its overall grade. With a strong performance in this category, it earned a quality score in that category with a B+. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures 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 state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving a resident at least once a day.

Another one of this nursing home's better category grades was in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B. It actually performed better than most facilities in this area. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to 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, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home was given its third best category score in the area of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable score. Our long-term care ratings are critical for prospective residents seeking non-healthcare services such as personal care. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. We were concerned by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated just 83.91304 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Nevertheless, this place was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Moving on the last category of inspections, this nursing home really did not fare well. Sadly, it received an F in this category. This pulled this nursing home's overall grade down as we heavily weight this category. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection grade. We suggest you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This nursing home had a category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by the government inspectors had the potential to cause actual harm to residents. Finally, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This usually means that a facility's bad performance spanned several years.