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University Park Care Center

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  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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945 Desert Flower Boulevard,
Pueblo CO 81001

(719) 545-5321

66.27% estimated occupancy 1

University Park Care Center is a large nursing home located in Pueblo, Colorado. This proved to be an A rated facility. This nursing home received one of the top ratings that we offer. A score of this caliber requires superb marks across the board. This is just about as good of a place as you're going to find. If you scroll down, you will see this place's category grades, which are equally impressive as its overall grade.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Awards

Best Nursing Home in Pueblo, Colorado badge

Best Nursing Home in Pueblo, Colorado Awards 2019

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-plus

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better scores in this category typically dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A

Contributing to its high-end profile, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 96.33252 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a life or death illness for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

This facility also was awarded a dominant short-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being this facility's third strongest category score. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

Turning to the last category, this facility also performed well in the nursing category. In fact, we awarded it an A- in this category. This wrapped up a straight A profile. Our nursing rating is based on several data points, however, the paramount consideration is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

University Park Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-plus

In University Park Care Center, 6.55% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This metric gauges the percent of long-term patients who developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a reliable measure of quality of care.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B

In University Park Care Center, 3.18% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care . Major falls are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A-minus

In University Park Care Center, 0.51% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by worse hygiene protocols. However, this statistic may be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: C

In University Park Care Center, 18.95% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In University Park Care Center, 17.34% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In University Park Care Center, 10.89% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In University Park Care Center, 97.71% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B

In University Park Care Center, 14.84% of Patients

This is the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B-plus

In University Park Care Center, 18.4% of Residents

This tells you the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In University Park Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is key to preserving the physical health of nursing home patients.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In University Park Care Center, 18.4% of Residents Rehospitalized

This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A

In University Park Care Center, 6.84% of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B-minus

In University Park Care Center, 73.38% of Resident

This is the percent of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with activities of daily living typically correlates with superior rehabilitation.

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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