Rio Grande Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center

    39 Calle Miller, La Jara, CO 81140
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.21·(28)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.5
    • Staff

      3.8
    • Meals

      2.0
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      4.2

    Pros

    • Modern, well-maintained facility
    • Private, home-like rooms
    • Clean and secure environment
    • Friendly, welcoming staff
    • Compassionate caregivers and family-like rapport
    • Strong family communication and support
    • Engaging activities and social events
    • Personalized celebrations and attention to residents
    • Seamless admissions and move-in experience
    • Reliable housekeeping and maintenance
    • Quiet, comfortable common areas

    Cons

    • Delayed staff responsiveness to resident requests
    • Inconsistent staff conduct and tone
    • Gaps in catheter- and wound-care protocols
    • Pressure-injury prevention and infection-control weaknesses
    • Inconsistent informed-consent and advance-directive procedures
    • Unreliable meal-temperature and food-service consistency
    • Variable clinical oversight resulting in hospital transfers
    • Inconsistent toileting and personal-care assistance

    Summary of reviews

    The reviews reflect a facility with clear strengths in physical environment and family engagement alongside concerning variability in clinical care and operational reliability. Many families described a modern, attractive building with private, home-like rooms, good housekeeping, and a secure, comfortable common area. Staff are frequently characterized as friendly and welcoming; several accounts emphasize caregivers who develop close, family-like rapport and that the admission process was smooth and well managed. Activity programming and personalized events (for example, birthday celebrations) are noted positively and contribute to a social, homey atmosphere.

    Care-quality descriptions are mixed and show a contrast between positive experiences and serious clinical concerns. Positive comments indicate effective day-to-day care for numerous residents. However, other reports raise issues relating to infection control, catheter management, and pressure-area prevention, sometimes culminating in hospital transfers. These accounts point to inconsistent clinical protocols and oversight rather than a uniformly poor or uniformly excellent clinical program. There are also specific concerns about how advance directives were handled; some reviewers described situations suggesting inadequate informed-consent processes and family notification. Such allegations, when present, merit targeted review by families and regulators.

    Staffing and communication show a similar pattern of variability. Many families praised clear, respectful communication and staff who know residents by name; others reported delays in attending to needs and examples of unkind or brusque conduct from individual nursing assistants. These differences suggest uneven staff training or supervision and variability in responsiveness across shifts. Family support is frequently described as a strength, with regular updates and a sense that families are welcomed — though communication during adverse clinical events appears less consistent.

    Dining and daily living are generally acceptable but inconsistent in execution. The facility is described as clean and well maintained, yet some reviewers noted meals arriving cold and families stepping in to assist with feeding. Personal-care assistance has similar variability: timely, compassionate help for many residents, but delays in toileting assistance or bathing for others.

    Overall, the pattern is one of a well-appointed facility with many committed staff and meaningful positives for social life and family engagement, tempered by operational and clinical inconsistencies that can have significant consequences. Prospective residents and their families should weigh the facility’s physical environment and community atmosphere against the variability in clinical practices and responsiveness. When evaluating this center, ask specifically about catheter and wound-care protocols, pressure-injury prevention measures, staffing levels across shifts, informed-consent processes for advance directives, and how the facility communicates with families during clinical incidents.

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    Medicare Ratings

    1·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

    • Quality Measures

    Cited by CMS for abuse, or potential for abuse, on its most recent survey cycle.

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    Location

    Rio Grande Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center is located at 39 Calle Miller, La Jara, CO, 81140.

    About Rio Grande Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center

    Rio Grande Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center sits in La Jara, Colorado and offers many levels of care for older adults and those needing rehabilitation, so if someone just had surgery or needs support between the hospital and home, this place helps with that, and folks can choose from studio rooms, and the care ranges from Independent Living and Assisted Living, to Memory Care, Home Care, Adult Day Services, Home Health Care that's Medicare-certified, and even Hospice Care, and though the facility has 60 certified beds, it averages about 55 residents each day, and it's the highest rated community in its city with a community rating of 7.6 out of 10, but the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gives it a 2-star rating, which is slightly below average, and health inspections and staffing levels come out average or just below, and the nurse turnover rate is 21.3% which means staff does change a bit, and residents get 3.55 nurse hours per day on average, and the place is part of Centennial Colorado Holdco and is connected to the Colorado Health Care Association, aiming for hometown care and trying to work closely with the La Jara community, and healthcare staff offer skilled nursing and help for the very frail who need daily support, and the building creates a safe, clean, and friendly place with programs for cardiac rehab, orthopedic rehab, and memory care, plus two infection-related deficiencies and 26 total deficiencies came up in past inspection reports, so it's not perfect, but the center does keep care steady and accepts Medicaid and Medicare for families that need help with coverage, and there are always chances to ask about jobs, tours, or find out if a room's available if a loved one needs care right away.

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    Rio Grande Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    No, Rio Grande Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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