Aspen Place Health Campus

One of the reasons this is a decent facility is it earned a favorable inspection score. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had a generally favorable view of this facility's recent inspections.

Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category grades was in the category of short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually fared better than most facilities in this category. Our short-term care scores are critical for patients seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

This facility's second worse category is long-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that category. This is a relatively poor score. For prospective residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.71795 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.

The final area we rated is nursing, which ended up being a weak spot for this nursing home. We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for nursing. Our nursing score is largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. With a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily, this place's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.