Center at Loln

Center at Loln is located in Parker, Colorado. We gave this facility an overall score of A-, making it the highest graded facility in the city. We couldn't find many negative things to say about this nursing home. Its scores are just impeccable. The best part of this facility's impressive profile is its short-term care rating. short-term care grades are discussed in the next paragraph

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the area of short-term care, where it earned an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to judge a facility's rehabilitation services. To offer highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home is the gold standard when it comes to skilled nursing staffing. In fact, it provided roughly 1.5 times as many physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Colorado in this area with 61.1 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. When computing a nursing home's nursing score, we look at the amount of time nurses are seeing residents as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provided 5.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We were very impressed by these statistics. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any nursing home in Colorado when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We view these areas as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Our inspection ratings are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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 some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

The last category we looked at was long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of C. While this turned out to be its lowest category grade, this is still not the end of the world. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we weren't able to find information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Finally, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.