St Andrews Village-Ltc
2670 South Abilene Street West, Aurora CO 80014 · (303) 695-9300 · 72.75% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
St Andrews Village-Ltc is in Aurora, Colorado, which is one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the country. Sporting an overall grade of A, this is without a doubt an elite nursing home. This facility turned out to be one of the better facilities in the city, which has a good selection of facilities. One of the major highlights of this facility's exemplary profile is its nursing score. Nursing grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. In computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients and the levels of training of those nurses. This facility provided 5.2 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This was one of the highest figures we found. In addition, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. Both of these statistics are impressive. In addition to offering high levels of care, this facility also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed as well as any nursing home in the nation in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility was given quality marks in the area of short-term care. For this reason, it received one of our best scores in that category with a grade of A+. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. The final datapoint we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Colorado in this area with 69.5 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home has had near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A in this area. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we graded is long-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of B-. While this ended up being its worst category score, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. Our long-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's volume of nursing care. This includes a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the favorable volume of care provided by nurses and other staff at this nursing home, we also were pleased by the facility's vaccination record. This facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.09091 percent of its residents, which is an impressive total. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.21 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
St Andrews Village-Ltc Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better