Glenwood Springs Health Care

One of the reasons this ended up being a decent facility is that it received a very favorable inspection score. In this area, we gave this facility a B. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to resident safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

In addition, we also would like to point out that this nursing home was awarded positive short-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our more impressive scores in this category, with a B. This proved to be the facility's second highest grade. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This means a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. We weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. In computing our nursing scores, we assess both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a low total compared with most other facilities. Lastly, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is usually a good indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place.

The final category we graded is long-term care, was this nursing home's least impressive category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 93.37749 percent of its patients. This is a bit below what we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Surprisingly, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.