Skyline Ridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Retirement Living
515 Fairview Avenue, Canon City, CO 81212
Skyline Ridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is located in the heart of Canon City, near the community hospital and several senior living centers, including The Village, an independent living community on our grounds.
Operated by 5 Star Quality Care, which runs 103 communities in our directory.
With 85 beds, Skyline Ridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is one of the larger communities in the area, senior care communities in Canon City average about 58 beds. Larger communities more often keep clinical staff on site around the clock and can offer a wider range of on-site therapy and activities, though some families prefer the quieter feel of a smaller setting.
Medicare rates this community 2 out of 5 stars overall, a score based on health inspections, staffing levels and quality measures. Communities in Canon City average about 2.8 stars. Its most recent standard health inspection was in September 2024 and recorded 12 deficiencies.
Residents receive about 3.1 hours of nursing care per day on average, including 0.4 hours from a registered nurse. Nursing staff turnover over the past year was about 68%, which is high and can affect continuity of care.
The community is located in FREMONT County, CO.
Inspection record
In its last three standard inspections and any complaint visits, federal inspectors cited 36 problems at Skyline Ridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. 3 findings involved harm to a resident. 5 came from investigating complaints by residents or families.
In the last three years Medicare fined this home once, a total of $21,320.
Findings from the most recent inspection cycle
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Caused harm to a resident, one or a few residents
Quality of Life and Care
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
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Caused harm to a resident, one or a few residents
Quality of Life and Care
Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, a pattern
Resident Assessment and Care Planning
Ensure necessary information is communicated to the resident, and receiving health care provider at the time of a planned discharge.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, a pattern
Quality of Life and Care
Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, a pattern
Infection Control
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation
Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Quality of Life and Care
Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Pharmacy Service
Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater.
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Could cause more than minimal harm, one or a few residents
Pharmacy Service
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
A citation on its own does not mean poor care, and most are corrected within weeks. What matters most is how serious the findings were and whether the same problems keep coming back. When you visit, it is fair to ask the administrator what inspectors found and what has changed since.
Skyline Ridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center offers memory care, nursing home care, independent living, and respite care.
Facility details
- Organization type for-profit corporation
- Beds / units 85
- Nursing hours per resident/day 3.1
- Annual staff turnover 68%
- Last health inspection September 2024
Resident & family reviews
Only reviewing Alzheimer's/dementia ward and though I have no basis for comparison, I am NOT pleased! Everything is done "cheaper" even though it's the most expensive home. Though meals are offered several times a day, little oversight by staff insures that the percentage of food eaten stated in medical charts is WAY overestimated. Patients falling over and complete strangers catching them, wheelchair and walker fights by elderly patients in the hallways and common areas are often stopped by visitors, not staff. Constant missing and/or stolen items, poor management never knows what the left or right hand is doing, laundry service never returns clothing despite being labeled, patients get horrible bedsores, very little continence management for those suffering from partial or total incontinence in addition. Ask for a patient to be pottied and it can take up to an hour or more. Now why would you allow someone with bedsores to sit in a wet and dirty adult diaper for hours?? CNAs for the most part are wonderful, but so poorly paid (yes, told by both staff and families of patients) that the turnover is high. They never do what they say they will, whether it's finding missing possessions, paperwork being returned to you, nutritional oversight, or a definitive answer to a simple question. Patient care conferences leave much to be desired as they are rescheduled or you're given the wrong time to show up and then have to wait through someone's appointment who was taken before you. There seems to be only a very basic "overview" of patients and, with the exception of a few select CNAs, very little attention is paid to physical touching and comfort. Meals are extremely cheap -- I was floored by the lack of concern about patients who are not eating and who are at shocking body weight and losing rapidly. Toothless elderly residents are given hamburgers and chips, enchiladas too hot for every resident (the staff loves them though), no coffee is offered or received after meals, and desserts offered but then forgotten or not given. Nasty mystery meat and mashed potatoes and gravy has been served almost every single day since my patient has been there. It seems there is more concern about the money bottom line than the patients. Love a majority of the nursing staff, but the management and daily running of this center leaves much to be desired.
by Nelson, Jan 2013