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Christopher House Rehab & Care Community

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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6270 West 38th Avenue,
Wheat Ridge CO 80033

(303) 421-2272

74.23% estimated occupancy 1

Please note our records indicate that Christopher House Rehab & Care Community has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.

Christopher House Rehab & Care Community is located in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, a city with 23,969 people. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this facility should work for most prospective residents. We were pleased to find out that this was in line with the other nursing homes in Wheat Ridge, which is one of the better cities in Colorado to find a nursing home. This place's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Mental Health
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A

To pair with its favorable overall grade, we gave this facility an A for our inspections rating. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home is also strong in the category of long-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this area. For patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 83.111115 percent of its patients, which is a few points below what we were hoping for. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing ratings are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures 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 the nation 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 having a system of moving a patient at least once a day.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: C

The final category we assessed is this nursing home's poorest area. However, even in its worst category we still awarded it an acceptable grade of C for short-term care. In computing our short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 3.8 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Christopher House Rehab & Care Community Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: D

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 14.67% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can minimize the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-plus

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 0.44% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls may be a sign of poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 0.9% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often associated with facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols can limit the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 18.85% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 7.28% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This measures the percentage of long-term patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are given to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 7.31% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 81.84% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 13.73% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-minus

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 12.31% of Residents

This indicates the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 12.31% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term resident care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: D

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 17.67% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A

In Christopher House Rehab & Care Community, 93.28% of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with successful rehabilitation.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Lutheran Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.24 miles away8300 W 38th Ave Wheat Ridge Colorado 80033Voluntary non-profit - Private(303) 425-4500
  • Centura Health-St Anthony HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 4.82 miles away11600 West 2nd Plc Denver Colorado 80228Voluntary non-profit - Church(720) 321-0000
  • Orthocolorado Hospital at St Anthony Med CampusAcute Care Hospitals 4.86 miles away11650 West 2nd Place Denver Colorado 80228Proprietary(720) 321-5000
  • Denver Health Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.94 miles away777 Bannock St Denver Colorado 80204Government - State(303) 602-4930
  • Saint Joseph HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.25 miles away1375 E 19th Ave Denver Colorado 80218Voluntary non-profit - Private(303) 812-2000
  • Presbyterian St Lukes Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.49 miles away1719 E 19th Ave Denver Colorado 80218Government - State(303) 839-6000
  • National Jewish HealthAcute Care Hospitals 6.85 miles away1400 Jackson St Denver Colorado 80206Voluntary non-profit - Private(303) 388-4461
  • Rose Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 7.5 miles away4567 E 9th Ave Denver Colorado 80220Proprietary(303) 320-2121

Nearby Dialysis

  • Kidney Center of Wheat Ridge (Ara)0.41 miles away6920 W 38th Ave Wheat Ridge Colorado 80033Dialysis Stations: 16 (303) 463-3041
  • Lakewood Dialysis (Dva)1.7 miles away1750 Pierce St Denver Colorado 80214CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (303) 238-6111
  • Mile High Pd (Dva)1.7 miles away1750 Pierce St Ste A Denver Colorado 80214Dialysis Stations: 3 (303) 232-0939
  • Kidney Center of Arvada (Ara)1.72 miles away5265 Vance St Arvada Colorado 80002CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (303) 403-1127
  • Kidney Center of Lakewood (Ara)4.07 miles away6166 W Alameda Ave Denver Colorado 80226Dialysis Stations: 21 (303) 922-6371
  • Pavilion Dialysis (Fmc)4.81 miles away723 Delaware St #m105 Denver Colorado 80204CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 27 (303) 623-2107
  • Denver Dialysis (Dva)4.99 miles away2900 Downing St Ste C Denver Colorado 80205CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (303) 292-0303
  • Lakewood Crossing Dialysis (Dva)5 miles away1057 S Wadsworth Blvd Ste 100 Denver Colorado 80226Dialysis Stations: 22 (720) 962-6199

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=065273