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Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center

Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center's website

1500 W Tomichi Ave,
Gunnison CO 81230

(970) 641-0704

69.66% estimated occupancy ¹

Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center is the lone facility we found in Gunnison, Colorado. After receiving an A overall grade, this nursing home has the distinction of being one of the top 25 facilities in Colorado. Based on our analysis, this nursing home is really as good as it gets. Scroll down to see this facility's category grades, which also impressed us. You just can't do much better than a straight A report card.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
Has Family Council
Government - County

Specialized Services

Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling

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Long-term Care Quality

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also performed well in long-term care, where it earned an impressive grade of A+. Few facilities fared better in this area. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Facility Inspections

Adding to its impressive category scores, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

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Nurse Quality

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. In determining our nursing grades, we weigh both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.4 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 nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

The final category we analyzed was short-term care, where this nursing home was given a grade of A-. This finished off a first-rate profile. Not many facilities earned an A- or higher in in each area we assessed. Our short-term care grades are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center, 6.01% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are often caused by residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care can reduce the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center, 3.45% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are often caused by poor nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center, 2.13% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be skewed for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center, 17.3% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. These medications are sometimes used for treating a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center, 12.22% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center, 3.73% of Patients

This metric measures the percentage of long-term patients demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center, 85.7% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center, 15.22% Percentage of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and using the bathroom. Some experts would argue that this is a measure of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center, 20.53% Percentage of Residents

This is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels. Some would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical health.

Hospitalizations

In Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center, 1.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to the physical well-being of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Gunnison Valley Health Senior Care Center, 20.53 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.