Parkview Medical Center

To pair with its strong overall score, we awarded this facility an A+ for its short-term care score. Short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. It does not look like this facility provided data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 7.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Adding to this nursing home's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home an A for our inspections rating. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this facility. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having access to all of the deficiency data, it ended up being challenging to evaluate it in this category.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B+ in this area. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Colorado in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning patients at least once a day.

In the final category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our long-term care score. This wrapped up an elite report card. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were not able to locate information about this nursing home's vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.