Consumer resources
Information about specific facilities, other resources
Provider resources
Licensure and requirements, Medicare/Medicaid certification, advisory committee, guidance by topic
Patients
- The frail elderly and people with chronic illness who need routine or skilled nursing care in a residential facility.
Services
- Room and board.
- 24/7 nursing coverage.
- Assistance with activities of daily living, such as bathing, dressing and eating.
- Facilities designated as "skilled" nursing facilities provide short- and long-term rehabilitative services and additional skilled nursing care.
- Some facilities have secured units to provide closer supervision for people with dementia.
Licensed staff routinely on-site
- Nurses and social workers.
- Facilities that provide rehabilitative services have occupational, speech and physical therapists.
Colorado Medical Directors Advisory Committee
Long Term Care Advisory Committee
Meeting dates, presentations
Guidance by topic
- Assistive devices and potential threats to residents.
- Bed safety.
- CPR directives.
- F465 Back Flow Preventor (device) presentation.
- Emergency Call Systems: Life Safety or Liability?
- Emergency preparedness resources.
- Feeding assistant training program.
- Feeding Assistant Application
- Hospice in nursing homes.
- How to file a complaint.
- Medicare review form.
- Plan of Correction guidelines.
- Deficiency rating information (scope and severity).
- Infectious disease guidelines for healthcare settings
- Locked units for dementia and mental illness.
- Frequently asked questions and answers related to resident sexual activity.
- Restraints Have Risks—Make the Right Choice.