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Heritage Park Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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Heritage Park Care Center's website

1200 Village Road,
Carbondale CO 81623

(970) 963-1500

51% estimated occupancy ¹

Note: Heritage Park Care Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.

Heritage Park Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Carbondale, Colorado. We awarded this facility an overall grade of D. A grade in this range typically indicates some red flags. This isn't the worse place we looked at, however, we would still be very reluctant to recommend it. More information on this nursing home's category grades may be found below. Its best category was inspections, which is addressed in the next section.

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Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
Is CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Post-Acute Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Medication Management
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Diabetes Management
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Recreational Therapy

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Facility Inspections

While we did not rate this nursing home well overall, we would like to note its decent health inspection reports in recent years. We gave it a relatively respectable grade of B- in that area. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have deficiency data for this nursing home. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.

Nurse Quality

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. Our nursing score is largely associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is significantly below the national average. Finally, although this place got docked a bit for nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this statistic.

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Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home's third best area is short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this area. This is basically a slightly below average score in this category. With our short-term care category, we try to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

Long-term Care Quality

The last area we rated is long-term care. In this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-. For prospective residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Heritage Park Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Heritage Park Care Center, 0.91% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric indicates the percent of long-term patients who have new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Heritage Park Care Center, 2.07% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of residents that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are often associated with poor nursing care. Additional nurse staffing can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Heritage Park Care Center, 0.75% of Patients had UTIs

This gauges the percent of long-term patients who have had urinary tract infections. UTI's could be a sign of worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric could also be misleading for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Heritage Park Care Center, 13.79% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Heritage Park Care Center, 6.21% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that are administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are given to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Heritage Park Care Center, 5.47% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who are exhibiting signs of depression. Some experts believe that this is a reliable measure of resident quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Heritage Park Care Center, 96.95% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Heritage Park Care Center, 17.02% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term stay residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and continence.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Heritage Park Care Center, 14.69% of Residents

This indicates the percent of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Heritage Park Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Heritage Park Care Center, 14.69% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Heritage Park Care Center, 11.35% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Heritage Park Care Center, 84.61% of Resident

Measures the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.

Nearby Hospitals

Valley View Hospital AssociationAcute Care Hospitals 10.13 miles away1906 Blake Ave Glenwood Springs Colorado 81601Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 945-6535