Mapleton Care Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned a very impressive inspection score. Inspections is its best category. In that category, we gave it an A-. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. 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. You really can't go wrong with a deficiency-free inspection report.

Adding to this nursing home's list of strengths, it also received an excellent nursing grade. We awarded them an impressive grade of A- in this category. Nursing grades are largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Colorado in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning residents more frequently.

Turning to our third category, this nursing home also earned a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this area. Our short-term care grade is typically used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to provide better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The final area we assessed is long-term care, in which this nursing home received a B. This nursing home ended up being very solid in each area we assessed. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 93.52226 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat below what we expected but still a respectable figure. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.