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Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center

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  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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2701 California Street,
Pueblo CO 81004

(719) 561-1300

78.01% estimated occupancy 1

Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized facility in Pueblo, Colorado. Sporting an overall grade of B+, this is a strong facility. You could certainly do much worse than this nursing home. This facility's impressive report card was highlighted by its inspection reports, which is addressed in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Partnership
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • Palliative Care
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Pain Management
  • Optometry
  • Colostomy Care
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2022)
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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

To pair with its strong overall grade, we gave this place an A- for the area of inspections. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area typically have very few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. The nursing score assesses a handful of factors, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

The third category we graded is short-term care. This facility received a favorable short-term care score, with a grade of B+ in this area. In computing our short-term care grades, we look at a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is frequently a useful measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

The last category we analyzed turned out to be this facility's poorest category. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it an acceptable grade of C for our long-term care category. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility provided the vaccine to 94.38203 percent of its patients, which is a very solid figure. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 6.33% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure tells you the percent of long-term patients who are suffering from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: C

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 4.87% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients that have had a fall which caused severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Additional nurse staffing reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 32.55% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients which are prescribed antipsychotic medication. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes may need to rely on these medications due to having more patients suffering from dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 17.8% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic gauges the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 9.27% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents demonstrating signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 96.5% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: A-minus

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 11.16% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and using the bathroom.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 20.77% of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term residents that were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry would argue that the ability to move around is vital to patients mental and physical health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 20.77% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-minus

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 13.01% of Patients

This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Desert Willow Health & Rehabilitation Center, 65.12% of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Scores for Pueblo, CO

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus

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