The 10 Worst Nursing Homes in Colorado

Finding the Right Nursing Home in Colorado: Why It Matters

When it comes to choosing a nursing home for your loved ones in Colorado, it's crucial to have access to accurate and comprehensive information. Our "Worst Nursing Homes in Colorado" page aims to provide you with insights into the facilities that have fallen short in various aspects of care. Understanding these ratings can help you make more informed decisions and ensure the well-being of those who matter most.

Top Worst Nursing Homes in Colorado

Our state rankings highlight the nursing homes in Colorado that have received the lowest quality scores based on a variety of factors, including health inspections, staffing levels, and resident care. These scores are designed to give you a clear picture of which facilities may require closer scrutiny.

Factors Considered:

• Health and safety inspections
• Staffing ratios
• Resident care and outcomes
• Compliance with federal and state regulations

Our scoring methodology is transparent and designed to provide an unbiased look at each facility's performance. Nursing Homes with the warning icon () have been flagged by CMS for abuse.

Disclaimer: Our rankings are based on data collected from reputable sources, including government reports and independent evaluations. While we strive for accuracy, we encourage you to visit facilities and conduct your own research before making any decisions.

Worst Nursing Homes in Colorado By City

Every city in Colorado has its own set of challenges and standards when it comes to nursing home care. To help you find the information most relevant to your location, we've compiled city-specific rankings of the worst-rated nursing homes. Click on the links below to explore the detailed lists for each city.

Worst Nursing Homes in Denver

• Westwood Post Acute (211)
  • Install emergency lighting that can last at least 1 1/2 hours. (2025-06-02)
  • Have simulated fire drills held at unexpected times. (2025-05-28)
• Heights Care and Rehabilitation LLC (210.5)
  • Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. (2026-04-07)
  • Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2026-04-07)
• Highline Post Acute (176)
  • Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. (2025-12-24)
  • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-08-06)
• Hilltop Park Post Acute (166.75)
  • Honor the resident's right to organize and participate in resident/family groups in the facility. (2025-12-10)
  • Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2024-09-06)
• Brookshire Post Acute (162.25)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2026-01-30)
  • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-11-13)
• Juniper Village - The Spearly Center (141.75)
  • Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. (2026-02-10)
  • Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2026-01-05)
• City Scape Rehabilitation and Care Center LLC (136)
  • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-07-02)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-07-02)
• Crestmoor Care Center (101)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-10-03)
  • Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. (2025-06-25)
• Holly Heights Care and Rehabilitation (97)
  • Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. (2026-04-18)
  • Install an approved automatic sprinkler system. (2026-04-18)
• Amberwood Post Acute (94)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-12-11)
  • Notify each resident of certain balances and convey resident funds upon discharge, eviction, or death. (2024-11-15)

Worst Nursing Homes in Colorado Springs

• Kiowa Hills Rehabilitation and Nursing, LLC (173)
  • Have elevators that firefighters can control in the event of a fire. (2027-01-01)
  • Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. (2026-08-01)
• Pikes Peak Post Acute (145.5)
  • Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia. (2025-12-19)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-12-19)
• Mountain View Post Acute (139)
  • Have an enclosure around a vertical opening shaft. (2026-06-30)
  • Use approved construction type or materials. (2026-06-30)
• Medallion Post Acute Rehabilitation (106.75)
  • Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-05-14)
  • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-02-04)
• Falcon Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing LLC (103)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2026-03-20)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-12-02)
• Liberty Heights (99.5)
  • Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2026-05-15)
  • Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. (2026-03-18)
• Colonial Rehabilitation and Nursing, LLC (97)
  • Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis. (2026-03-22)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-12-22)
• Sundance Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation (94)
  • Have restrictions on the use of flammable curtains. (2026-08-15)
  • Use approved construction type or materials. (2026-06-30)
• The Healthcare Resort of Colorado Springs (87.25)
  • Add doors in an exit area that do not require the use of a key from the exit side unless in case of special locking arrangements. (2025-09-22)
  • Have approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems. (2025-09-22)
• The Center at Cordera (85)
  • Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. (2026-02-24)
  • Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube. (2025-08-20)

Worst Nursing Homes in Aurora

• La Bella of Aurora (425.25)
  • Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food that accommodates resident allergies, intolerances, and preferences, as well as appealing options. (2026-05-06)
  • Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident. (2026-05-06)
• Pearl of Orchard Valley (406.25)
  • Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2026-03-23)
  • Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (2026-03-23)
• Ascend at Aurora (279)
  • Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food that accommodates resident allergies, intolerances, and preferences, as well as appealing options. (2026-05-01)
  • Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. (2026-05-01)
• University Heights Care Center (123.75)
  • Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. (2025-12-17)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-12-17)
• Lowry Hills Care and Rehabilitation (98)
  • Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. (2025-06-27)
  • Ensure the transfer/discharge meets the resident's needs/preferences and that the resident is prepared for a safe transfer/discharge. (2025-06-27)
• Hampden Hills Post Acute (91)
  • Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. (2025-02-14)
  • Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice. (2025-02-14)
• Alden of Waterford (86.75)
  • Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason. (2026-02-02)
  • Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2026-02-02)
• Aviva at Fitzsimons (79)
  • Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. (2025-01-31)
  • Provide exit doors that are held open by devices that will automatically close on the activation of a fire alarm or smoke detector. (2024-11-30)
• Veterans Community Living Center at Fitzsimons (70.75)
  • Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke. (2025-02-25)
  • Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. (2025-02-25)
• Life Care Center of Aurora (61)
  • Have proper medical gas storage and administration areas. (2024-05-02)
  • Ensure heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions. (2024-04-29)

Worst Nursing Homes in Fort Collins

• Creekside Village Rehabilitation and Nursing LLC (297)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2026-02-28)
  • Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice. (2026-02-28)
• Poudre Canyon Rehabilitation and Nursing, LLC (167.75)
  • Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. (2026-06-01)
  • Ensure heating and ventilation systems that have been properly installed according to the manufacturer's instructions. (2025-11-21)
• Storybrook Care and Rehabilitation (154.5)
  • Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (2025-12-23)
  • Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. (2025-12-23)
• Rehabilitation and Nursing Center of The Rockies (114.25)
  • Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. (2025-12-31)
  • Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. (2025-12-01)
• Columbine West Health and Rehab LLC (75.75)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-03-21)
  • Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with dementia. (2025-03-19)
• Good Samaritan Society -- Fort Collins Village (24)
  • Meet other general requirements. (2026-01-15)
  • Install corridor and hallway doors that block smoke. (2026-01-05)
• Lemay Avenue Health and Rehab LLC (17)
  • Have exits that are accessible at all times. (2026-02-27)
  • Have properly located and lighted "Exit" signs. (2026-02-27)
• Centre Avenue Health and Rehab LLC (9)
  • Install a fire alarm system that can be heard throughout the facility. (2024-12-05)
  • Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. (2024-11-21)

Worst Nursing Homes in Lakewood

• Oakwood Care and Rehabilitation (205.25)
  • Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. (2026-03-23)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2026-03-23)
• Cedars Healthcare Center (121)
  • Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2025-08-13)
  • Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. (2025-08-08)
• Sierra Post Acute (119)
  • Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (2026-02-13)
  • Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods. (2026-02-09)
• Fountainview Care Center (109.25)
  • Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. (2025-06-23)
  • Have properly installed electrical wiring and gas equipment. (2025-04-02)
• Enniscourt Nursing Care (98.25)
  • Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident?s preferences and goals. (2026-03-13)
  • Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2026-03-13)
• Harmony Pointe Care Center (90)
  • Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. (2025-02-17)
  • Follow proper procedures when the automatic sprinkler systems was out of service for more than 10 hours. (2024-11-29)
• Lakewood Post Acute and Rehabilitation (88.5)
  • Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2025-05-09)
  • Ensure that residents are fully informed and understand their health status, care and treatments. (2025-05-09)
• Mapleton Post Acute (74)
  • Provide the required documentation or notification related to the resident's needs, appeal rights, or bed-hold policies. (2025-07-07)
  • Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered. (2025-07-07)
• Allison Care Center (61)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-10-15)
  • Have approved installation, maintenance and testing program for fire alarm systems. (2025-06-13)
• Lakewood Villa (59)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-07-27)
  • Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2025-04-25)

Related Lists and Resources

While it's important to be aware of the lowest-rated facilities, we also provide resources to help you find the best care available. Check out our other lists to find top-rated nursing homes and facilities that excel in specific areas.

• Best Nursing Homes in Colorado
• Analysis of Nursing Homes in Colorado

Making Informed Decisions

Understanding our rankings and how they are derived can empower you to make better choices for your loved ones. Remember, a low rating in one area doesn't necessarily mean a facility is entirely unsuitable; it's a starting point for further investigation.

Tips for Evaluating Nursing Homes in Colorado:

• Schedule visits to potential facilities
• Speak with staff and residents
• Review recent inspection reports
• Consider the specific needs of your loved one

Disclaimer: NursingHomeDatabase.com does not have a relationship, either commercial or otherwise, with any of the skilled nursing facilities referred to on this site. This is an independent resource that tries to make more and better information available to the public.

More Resources for Families

Navigating the world of nursing home care can be overwhelming. Here are some resources to help you make the best decisions for your family:

• The Role of Family in Nursing Home Care
• Navigating Medicaid for Nursing Home Care
• How to Handle a Nursing Home Discharge
• Understanding Nursing Home Ratings and What They Mean
• Questions to Ask During a Nursing Home Visit