Spanish Peaks Veterans Community Living Center

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. There are a number of factors included in this category. Many of these criteria are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Adding to its elite profile, this facility also excelled in our long-term care area. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that area. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. After assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 94.82758 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility is also above average in the category of short-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It performed better than most facilities in this category. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is generally a reliable assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Wrapping up its excellent profile, this facility also performed well in our inspection category. In fact, we gave it a B+ for that area. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.