Garfield County Nursing Home

In addition to being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually perfect. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many impressive scores, this facility received a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a score of A- in this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to grade a facility's rehabilitation services. To provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care. Contributing to its impressive profile, this facility also excelled in that category. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- for the area. For prospective residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 90.14085 percent of its patients. This is a few points lower than we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home also performed well in our nursing category. We gave it a B+ in this area. This wrapped up a very impressive profile. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also factored a few quality measures into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.