Colorado Elderly & Nursing Home Care Centers

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:

• “Information for Senior Citizens”
• Health facilities licensing and certification
• Standards for Hospitals and Health Facilities, “Assisted Living Residence” (PDF download)

 

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):

• Medicaid
• Senior Health Insurance Assistance Program

• Colorado National Family Caregiver Support Program

 

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.