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A relatively low 10.9 percent of Coloradans are 65 or older. (The national average is 13 percent.) But the state’s nursing homes rate high. Medicare gives 18 percent of Colorado’s nursing homes five stars overall, as of this writing. That’s average nationally but above the Southwest’s average of 13 percent. Forty percent of those nursing homes are clustered in the state’s top-five most populated cities.
Approximate number of facilities:
- Nursing homes: 211
- Assisted living residences: 495*
Types of care available:
- Adult day care
- Home care
- Home health-care
- Continuing-care retirement communities
- Assisted living residences
- Residential care homes (including personal-care boarding homes and adult foster care homes)
- Nursing homes
Estimated average prices:**
- Adult day care: $62 per day
- Home care: $21 per hour
- Home health-care: $23 per hour
- Assisted living: $3,309 per month
- Nursing home, semi-private room: $205 per day
- Nursing home, private room: $225 per day
State websites for seniors:
Where to report elder abuse:
- In domestic/community care: 1-800-773-1366
- In nursing homes: 1-800-773-1366 or 1-800-886-7689, Ext. 2800
Government financial assistance (partial list):
Top-10 largest cities:
- Denver
- Colorado Springs
- Aurora
- Lakewood
- Fort Collins
- Arvada
- Pueblo
- Westminster
- Boulder
- Thornton
Top nursing homes, based on Medicare ratings:***
Arvada
Arvada Care and Rehabilitation Center
Aurora
Advanced Health Care of Aurora
Summit Rehabilitation and Care Community
Brighton
Cottonwood Care Center
Castle Rock
Brookside Inn
Cheyenne Wells
Cheyenne Manor
Colorado Springs
The Center at Centennial
Village at Skyline – Skyline Pines Care Center
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek Rehab & Wellness Center
Denver
Denver North Care Center
Heritage Club Mountain View
Holly Heights Care Center
Uptown Health Care Center
Estes Park
Prospect Park Living Center
Florence
Bruce Mccandless Colorado State Veterans Nursing Home
Fort Collins
Centre Avenue Health and Rehabilitation Facility
Good Samaritan Society – Fort Collins Village
Fowler
Fowler Health Care
Greeley
Grace Pointe Continuing Care Senior Campus, Skilled Nursing
North Colorado Medical Center Transitional Care Unit
Greenwood Village
Heritage Club at Greenwood Village – Long-Term Care
Highlands Ranch
Vi at Highlands Ranch Skilled Nursing
Lakewood
Cambridge Care Center
Harmony Pointe Nursing Center
Hospice of Saint John – Long-Term Care
Mapleton Care Center
Sierra Rehabilitation and Care Community
Littleton
Orchard Park Health Care Center
Longmont
Longmont United Hospital Transitional Care Unit
Loveland
Mckee Medical Center Nursing Home – Transitional CareUnit
North Shore Health & Rehab Facility
Paonia
Paonia Care and Rehabilitation Center
Pueblo
Horizon Heights
Simla
Good Samaritan Society – Simla
Steamboat Springs
Doak Walker Care Center
Thornton
Vista View Care Center
Walsenburg
Colorado State Veterans Nursing Home – Walsenburg
Westminster
Clear Creek Care Center
*Assisted-living residence numbers are from the Department of Health and Human Services’ 2007 Residential Care and Assisted Living Compendium. According to the National Center for Assisted Living, this is the industry’s only resource for such data. Depending on the state, the number may or may not include small residential-care homes, such as adult foster care.
**Senior-care price estimates are based on the 2011 MetLife Market Survey of Long-Term Care Costs, which reports average rates,and the Genworth 2011 Cost of Care Survey, which reports median rates.
***Medicare rates nursing homes in four categories using a five-star system. These are the nursing homes with five stars in the “Overall” category. The ratings were accessed on Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare site in November or December 2011 and are subject to change. The Medicare ratings system isn’t perfect, so use additional criteria to evaluate nursing homes as well.
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