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Willow Tree Care Center

Nursing Home

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

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2050 South Main Street,
Delta CO 81416

(970) 874-9773

52% estimated occupancy ¹

Willow Tree Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Delta, Colorado. Sporting an overall grade of C, this looks like a middle of the pack facility. This nursing home seems to have a few things working in its favor. The best part of this place's report card is is its nursing grade. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph.

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Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Corporation
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling

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Nurse Quality

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home really excelled in the category of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes did better in this category. The nursing grade assesses a handful of datapoints, however, the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

We also awarded this nursing home an impressive grade in short-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. In computing these short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our goal is to devise a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

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Long-term Care Quality

We also awarded this nursing home a solid grade in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the datapoints we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 92.70073 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Facility Inspections

Moving on our final category of inspections, this nursing home received a terrible grade. Unfortunately, with an F in the inspection category, this nursing home's overall grade was adversely affected. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a nursing home's inspection reports when it receives this poor of an inspection rating. We would scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. It does not appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines in recent years of over $100,000. This typically suggests that a bad performance has been an issue for several years.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Willow Tree Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Willow Tree Care Center, 4.08% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term stay patients who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Willow Tree Care Center, 5.84% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of patients that suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are routinely linked to lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision can minimize the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Willow Tree Care Center, 2.52% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care . UTI's are often caused by a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this datapoint may also be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Willow Tree Care Center, 27.82% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This is the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are administered to residents for a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in some cases, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Willow Tree Care Center, 27.27% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term care patients taking antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Willow Tree Care Center, 1.52% of Patients

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients showing signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Willow Tree Care Center, 90.97% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Willow Tree Care Center, 30.43% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Many argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Willow Tree Care Center, 19.91% of Residents

This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay residents that remained mobile levels. Some argue that mobility is critical to residents' physical and mental health.

Hospitalizations

In Willow Tree Care Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Willow Tree Care Center, 19.91% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Willow Tree Care Center, 23.08% of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Willow Tree Care Center, 84.71% of Resident

This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

Delta County Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.71 miles away1501 E 3rd St Delta Colorado 81416Government - Local(970) 874-7681
Montrose Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 19.44 miles away800 S 3rd St Montrose Colorado 81401Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 249-2211