Windsor Health Care Center

Windsor Health Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Windsor, Colorado. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A grade of this caliber requires some respectable marks. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. This nursing home did not excel in every category we looked at, but it did not receive any rock-bottom grades either. Additional information about its category grades is available below.

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the area of inspections. In fact, it received an excellent government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best scores in this category with an A. Our inspection ratings are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this nursing home's better category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B. It actually outperformed most facilities in this area. For long-term care residents, the facility's 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. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 83.38028 percent of its patients. This is a bit less than we anticipated. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is well below average in this category. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. In this place's case, we found that it actually offers far less registered nurse hours per patient than a typical nursing home. Given its score in this category, this did not surprise us. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well in this area. In fact, we found that just 33.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Turning to our final area, we gave this facility a grade of D in our nursing category. This was the facility's worst category rating. Our nursing rating features several data points. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This facility offered only 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home.