Greenwood Village South

One of the many reasons this ended up being a great nursing home is it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 8 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its first-rate resume, this facility also was given a strong long-term care grade, with a score of A-. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 97.73869 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care scores this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our stronger grades in that area, with a grade of B. Our short-term care grades are critical for individuals needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last measure we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The last area we analyzed is nursing. In this area, we gave this facility an impressive grade of B. Our nursing category weighs many subcategories, most of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a system of moving residents at least once a day.