Loln Community Hospital Nursing Home

Loln Community Hospital Nursing Home is a small hospital-based nursing home in Hugo, Colorado. After receiving an overall grade of A, this facility is among the best nursing homes we looked at. We rated this facility in the top 100 facilities in Colorado, which is a distinguished list. Headlining this place's stellar profile is its nursing rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This facility provides an incredible 6.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Out of that total, many of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to offering impressive levels of care, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients sustaining falls which lead to major injury, this place outpaced the national average. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection grades. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. It does not look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. Contributing to its top-shelf profile, this nursing home also excelled in this category. In fact, we awarded it a of A- in the category. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. On top of considering the well above average level of care provided by aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were happy with the nursing home's vaccination statistics. For example, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. This combination proved to be effective as this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 2.45 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most nursing homes since it had some more complex patients.

Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home was given a strong short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it an A- in that area, giving this facility straight A's. Our short-term care ratings are critical for patients looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.