Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation is an average-sized nursing home in Commerce City, Colorado. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of D, which is a subpar rating. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Commerce City. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive nursing rating. You can scroll down to learn more about nursing and other category grades
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Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
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Nurse Quality
Although we were not complementary of this facility's overall grade, it earned an impressive nursing rating this year. We gave it a B+ in this area. Nursing ratings are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home averages 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility a decent score in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a C. In determining our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is frequently a solid measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last datapoint we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 2.7 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.
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Facility Inspections
This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it only received a grade of D for its inspection grade. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. You should be more cautious when considering a nursing home with severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This nursing home was hit with one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies identified by CMS had the potential to cause actual harm to patients. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This generally indicates that a poor performance spanned multiple years.
Long-term Care Quality
Turning to our last area, this facility really did not fare well in this category either. With a poor grade of F in long-term care, this is about as bad as it gets. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 70.77364 percent of its residents. This is many points below average. Surprisingly, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 4.52% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This metric is is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who suffer from pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a great measure of a facility's nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 1.43% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that sustained a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often linked to poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 1.53% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be linked to insufficient hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 16.5% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically required. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely more on these drugs due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 12.42% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are generally used to treat residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 0.62% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 80.28% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 7.12% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and taking a bath. Many in the industry would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 7.28% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents that were able to retain mobility. Many believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' physical and mental well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 7.28% of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Woodridge Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation, 95.93% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- North Suburban Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 4.52 miles away9191 Grant St Denver Colorado 80229Voluntary non-profit - Private(303) 451-7800
- Presbyterian St Lukes Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.24 miles away1719 E 19th Ave Denver Colorado 80218Government - State(303) 839-6000
- National Jewish HealthAcute Care Hospitals 5.29 miles away1400 Jackson St Denver Colorado 80206Voluntary non-profit - Private(303) 388-4461
- Saint Joseph HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.37 miles away1375 E 19th Ave Denver Colorado 80218Voluntary non-profit - Private(303) 812-2000
- Rose Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 5.85 miles away4567 E 9th Ave Denver Colorado 80220Proprietary(303) 320-2121
- Denver Health Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 6.88 miles away777 Bannock St Denver Colorado 80204Government - State(303) 602-4930
- University of Colorado Hospital AuthorityAcute Care Hospitals 6.91 miles away12605 E 16th Ave Aurora Colorado 80045Government - Hospital District or Authority(720) 848-0000
- Children's Hospital ColoradoChildrens 7.12 miles away13123 E 16th Ave Aurora Colorado 80045Voluntary non-profit - Private(720) 777-1234
Nearby Dialysis
- Commerce City Dialysis (Dva)0.43 miles away6320 Holly St Commerce City Colorado 80022CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (303) 853-4300
- Stapleton Dialysis (Fmc)3.67 miles away7606 E 36th Ave Denver Colorado 80238Dialysis Stations: 20 (303) 322-1513
- Thornton Kidney Center LLC (Ara)3.67 miles away8451 Pearl Street Denver Colorado 80229Dialysis Stations: 13 (303) 227-9981
- Thornton Dialysis (Dva)4.5 miles away8800 Fox Dr Denver Colorado 80260CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (303) 430-7020
- Denver Dialysis (Dva)4.61 miles away2900 Downing St Ste C Denver Colorado 80205CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (303) 292-0303
- Kidney Center of Westminster (Ara)5.54 miles away8410 Decatur St Ste 200 Westminster Colorado 80031CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (303) 430-6518
- Rocky Mountain Dialysis (Fmc)5.7 miles away4600 Hale Pkwy Ste 120 Denver Colorado 80220CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (303) 320-6894
- Montbello Dialysis6.73 miles away4834 Chambers Road Denver Colorado 80239Dialysis Stations: 12 (303) 371-1502