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Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home

  • Nursing Home
  • For people with disabilities

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home's website

0903 Moore Drive,
Florence CO 81226

(719) 784-6331

47.71% estimated occupancy 1

Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home is an average-sized government-owned nursing home in Florence, Colorado. Featuring an overall grade of A-, this is undoubtedly a very strong nursing home. We really can't say enough good things about this facility. This facility also received very consistent grades in all of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about these categories is available below.

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Government - State
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Recreational Therapy

Awards

Top Nursing Home in Colorado badge

Top Nursing Home in Colorado Awards 2021

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2021)
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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A

In addition to receiving a great overall score, this facility fared well in long-term care. In fact, we gave it an A for that category. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

Turning to inspections, this nursing home excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Arguably the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses at the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this category. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

In the final category we analyzed, this facility received a very favorable grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this score, the nursing home wrapped up a very impressive report card. In the category of short-term care, we strive to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. It doesn't look like this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage 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.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Sep 22

Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A+

In Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home, 5.86% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from staying in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home, 3.47% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic tells you the percent of long-term care residents which have had a fall which resulted in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-minus

In Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home, 2.14% of Patients had UTIs

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents that suffered from urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's hygiene protocols, it can be difficult to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having inconsistent reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home, 17.6% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may be used for treating a variety of medical conditions, including cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A

In Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home, 12.24% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-minus

In Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home, 3.81% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting depressive symptoms. Increased rates of depression could be a sign worse patient care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A

In Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home, 84.99% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B

In Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home, 15.45% Percentage of Patients

This is the percentage of patients who needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's could be a sign of deterioration of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B

In Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home, 19.26% Percentage of Residents

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry believe that mobility is critical to residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-minus

In Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home, 1.08 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is critical to the physical well-being of patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B

In Bruce Mccandless Co State Veterans Nursing Home, 19.26 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of residents.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Centura Health-St Thomas More HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 8.27 miles away1338 Phay Avenue Canon City Colorado 81212Voluntary non-profit - Private(719) 285-2000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Canon City Dialysis (Fmc)7.35 miles away2245 Fremont Dr Canon City Colorado 81212Dialysis Stations: 12 (719) 276-8404

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=065394