Center at Park West

To pair with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. In crafting these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Nursing ratings are largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Colorado in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning patients even once per day.

Racking up another strong category grade, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not look like we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We would like to have more information about this facility. Without having complete deficiency data, it ended up being challenging to assess the place in the area of inspections.

Turning to our last area, this facility was awarded an acceptable long-term care rating. Although this wasn't as elite as some of its other grades, this is truly not a poor grade. In calculating our long-term care grades, we look at the personal care offered to the nursing home's patients. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided information about vaccinations. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.