Garfield County Nursing Home

On top of earning a great overall grade, this facility performed well in our inspections category, which is based on its recent inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Compounding its elite accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this facility a score of A- for its short-term care score. Short-term care grades are based on the facility's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast spectrum of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing grade is primarily based on a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 frequently be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The final category we graded was long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of B-. While this wound up being its lowest category score, this is still not a bad grade. With our long-term care assessment, we weigh the sheer quantity of care provided by a nursing home, as well as a series of quality data points. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 95.454544 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.