Aspen Place Health Campus

While we were not very complementary of this nursing home's overall grade, it received a very impressive inspection report this year. In fact, it received an excellent inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest scores in that category with an A-. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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. Even with this deficiency, this place still received a relatively positive inspection report.

One of this nursing home's better category grades was in the area of short-term care. This ended up being its second most favorable category. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B-. Short-term care grades are often used to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home performed better in this statistic. This place performed better than most nursing homes in this metric with 53.4 percent of its patients returning home. At most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This facility offered just 3.1 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor marks in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these datapoints. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.

Switching gears to the next category, this nursing home didn't fare well here either. With a very poor grade of F in long-term care, this is really as as uninspiring as it gets. For patients in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 96.21212 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.61 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.