The Green House Homes at Mirasol is one of just a few facilities located in Loveland, Colorado. This nursing home received an A- overall, which is one of the most impressive grades that we offer. A grade of this caliber requires excellent scores across the board. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it in the top quarter of all facilities in the country. This facility's impressive profile was highlighted by its nursing rating, which is addressed in the next paragraph.
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The Green House Homes at Mirasol
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our nursing rating. Nursing scores are tied to quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third area we analyzed is short-term care. Contributing to its high-end resume, this facility also performed well in that category. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- in the category. Short-term care grades are important for patients requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a broad scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we rated was long-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. This actually was this nursing home's least impressive category. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care ratings. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 74.02597 percent of its patients. This is quite a bit lower than what we expected. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Green House Homes at Mirasol Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 5.67% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who suffer from pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 3.72% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injury are routinely the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing care reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 2.04% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents who sustained urinary tract infections. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it is problematic to compare different facilities due to nursing homes having differing reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 17.61% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percent of long-term residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 12.49% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of residents prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 3.91% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 84.62% of Patients
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 15.34% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 16.01% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of patients that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 1.17 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 16.01 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 12.31 Percentage of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to assess the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Green House Homes at Mirasol, 76.2% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients who saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Mckee Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.93 miles away2000 Boise Ave Loveland Colorado 80538Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 669-4640
- Medical Center of the RockiesAcute Care Hospitals 3.73 miles away2500 Rocky Mountain Avenue Loveland Colorado 80538Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 624-2500
- Banner Fort Collins Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.67 miles away4700 Lady Moon Drive Fort Collins Colorado 80528Voluntary non-profit - Other(970) 821-4000
- Poudre Valley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.94 miles away1024 S Lemay Ave Fort Collins Colorado 80524Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 495-7000
- Longmont United HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 14.56 miles away1950 Mountain View Ave Longmont Colorado 80501Voluntary non-profit - Private(303) 651-5111
- North Colorado Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 18.63 miles away1801 - 16th St Greeley Colorado 80631Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 810-4121
Nearby Dialysis
- Loveland Central Dialysis (Dva)0.97 miles away1453 N Denver Ave Loveland Colorado 80538Dialysis Stations: 12 (970) 663-4607
- Loveland Dialysis (Fmc)2.59 miles away2940 Ginnala Dr Loveland Colorado 80538CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (970) 663-9155
- Northern Colorado Home Therapy Dialysis (Fmc)3.78 miles away5285 Mcwhinney Blvd #190 Loveland Colorado 80538Dialysis Stations: 4 (970) 667-0596
- Northern Colorado Kidney Center (Fmc)12.02 miles away2107 S. Timberline Rd Fort Collins Colorado 80525Dialysis Stations: 20 (970) 482-2161
- Davita Fort Collins Dialysis12.47 miles away1601 Prospect Parkway Suite 180 Fort Collins Colorado 80525Dialysis Stations: 13 (970) 493-0753
- Kidney Center on Main (Ara)14.87 miles away2144 Main St Ste 2 Longmont Colorado 80501Dialysis Stations: 14 (303) 485-8911
- Longmont Dialysis (Dva)14.97 miles away1715 Iron Horse Dr Ste 170 Longmont Colorado 80501Dialysis Stations: 18 (303) 485-4084
- Kidney Center of Longmont (Ara)17.21 miles away1960 Ken Pratt Blvd Ste A Longmont Colorado 80501Dialysis Stations: 20 (303) 485-7100