Located in Denver, Colorado, South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation is one of 40 options in the area. Featuring an overall score of B+, this facility should work for most people. In fact, we found this nursing home to be better than the majority of the nursing homes in Denver, which has a city grade of B. If you look below, you can see this place's category ratings, which are also strong.
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South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation
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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Lymphedema Care
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Nurse Quality
One of the reasons this place received a great overall grade is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility an A-. When calculating our nursing scores, we analyze both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place Colorado in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning patients at least once a day.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home also excelled in inspections. We gave it an A- for that category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. It doesn't appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without deficiency data for this nursing home, it ended up being difficult to evaluate the place in the inspections category.
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Long-term Care Quality
The third category we assessed was long-term care. This nursing home received a favorable long-term care score, with a grade of B in the area. For residents looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 90.75145 percent of its patients. This is a bit lower than we were hoping for but still a respectable figure. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the last area, this nursing home was awarded an extremely favorable short-term care score. This nursing home didn't end up having any identifiable weaknesses. In the category of short-term care, we seek to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 4.2 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 5.56% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint gauges the percentage of long-term care patients that are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 0.87% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 0.92% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 8.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are prescribed antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications are not medically indicated. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 7.25% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients which are administered antianxiety drugs. These medications are commonly prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 9.29% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents showing depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 95.11% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 5.9% of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 6.13% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 6.13% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 13% of Patients
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation, 98.05% of Resident
This indicates the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with better rehabilitation.
Scores for Denver, CO
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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