Rocky Mountain Care - Cottage on Vine

This facility really excelled in the category of short-term care, where it received an A. Few facilities performed better in this area. If it was not for this grade, this nursing home's overall grade would have been much lower. Our short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

We also wanted to point out that this nursing home received a great nursing grade. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Our nursing score is mostly tied to a facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's next best category was long-term care. We gave it a B- in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this category. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 99.29078 percent of its residents. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The last category we assessed is inspections. We were surprised to find that this facility received such a poor inspection rating. We gave it just a just D in this category. Clearly, this score is not on par with some of this facility's other grades. Inspection ratings relate to a facility's inspection reports. Since this information is collected by government inspectors, we weight it pretty heavily. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. Generally, you should be more cautious when considering a nursing home that has severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This particular nursing home was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they created a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we want to point out that this place was assessed significant government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This often indicates that a nursing home's bad performance has been an issue for more than one year.