{"id":2294,"date":"2026-07-05T16:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:33:45","slug":"complaints-and-violations-mount-at-colorados-understaffed-nursing-homes-and-assisted-living-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"Complaints and violations mount at Colorado\u2019s understaffed nursing homes and assisted living facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>After a year in a Colorado nursing home, George McNeill, 79, said he\u2019s OK. He eats three meals a day, has a good roommate, rests easily knowing laundry and cleaning will get done, and gets the help he needs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2292\">A Colorado county\u2019s new \u2018unicorn\u2019 home health program fills gap left by provider\u2019s closure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McNeill grew up in New York City and loved his career directing legislation and local elections for the National Rifle Association. He\u2019s been in and out of seven nursing homes in nine years, due to a condition that causes him to collapse into unconsciousness, and ranks his current stay at Durango Health and Rehabilitation as one of the best.<\/p>\n<p>Once, after he pressed his call button, nobody arrived for 21 minutes, McNeill said, but nurses typically arrive in under 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese places all have the same toys. They have wheelchairs. They have oxygen. They have beds that go up and down to make it easy to get in and out. It\u2019s the staff that makes the difference,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I collapse here, there\u2019s somebody who can take care of me. I feel safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the conditions in nursing homes and assisted living centers around Colorado, where residents often receive as little as two hours of direct care each day, are deteriorating. Chronic understaffing has led to severe deficiencies at these facilities, more than in most states, with rising numbers of complaints lodged by residents.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, 40% of nursing homes in Colorado had severe deficiencies, defined as problems that can threaten residents\u2019 lives, according to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data. The state\u2019s number went up from 14% in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The only states with higher nursing home deficiency rates were Illinois (61%), South Dakota (53%), Delaware (45%) and Rhode Island (45%).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the rules governing care, such as the federal requirement that nursing homes keep a registered nurse on-site 24\/7, have been relaxed. Long-term care industry leaders say caregivers with the necessary skills cannot be retained for the wages companies are willing to pay. This is happening as a demographic shift to an older, grayer population slams Colorado.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The estimated 38,069 residents in Colorado\u2019s 210 nursing homes and 675 assisted living centers are filing formal complaints at the rate of 20 a day, and the annual total hit 7,426 in the 2025 fiscal year, up from 6,778 in 2024 and 6,342 in 2023, Colorado Department of Human Services records show. <\/p>\n<p>That equates to a complaint for about one in five residents of these facilities.<\/p>\n<h4>\u2018Residents are suffering\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>The complaints include \u201cdisturbing numbers\u201d alleging \u201cabuse and neglect,\u201d said Leah McMahon, director of Colorado\u2019s Long-Term Care Ombudsman program, which deploys 64 trained inspectors to investigate and try to solve problems affecting residents.<\/p>\n<p>Being in a nursing home no longer guarantees frequent daily contact with licensed nurses, and conditions often lead to \u201closs and grief, no joy, no animation, no engagement in life, and complete loss of hope that somebody is going to help residents feel better, take their pain away,\u201d McMahon said. \u201cTheir dignity is lost. Their respect is lost. It\u2019s like being the number on the wall outside the door of your room. It\u2019s not like being a person. Residents are suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment, which licenses nursing homes and assisted living facilities, reported 175 investigations in progress in June, including 89 in nursing homes and 86 at assisted living facilities. Since 2023, state regulators have issued 6,928 citations, including 140 for abuse and neglect by staff, 254 for accident hazards, and 257 for failing to control infections, according to state records.<\/p>\n<p>Among inspectors\u2019 findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An insufficient staffing citation issued to a Lakewood nursing home in 2025 alleged that nurse aides \u201cfailed to ensure residents received their showers as scheduled and incontinence care in a timely manner,\u201d and complained to residents about being short-staffed. An employee told a state inspector that two nurse aides were assigned to 50 residents, the report said.<\/li>\n<li>At a Pueblo nursing home in 2024, a state inspector heard from a man who waited more than 30 minutes for assistance getting to a bathroom and \u201creported extreme pain and discomfort and was afraid to leave his room due to fear of falling again.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This year, a man in a Longmont nursing home cited for insufficient staffing told an inspector that \u201che had pushed his call light button before because he was having a hard time breathing and had to wait over an hour.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>At a nursing home in Craig, a state inspector in 2024 noted that \u201csome of the residents have resorted to checking on one another when they have noticed call lights were on.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>For a citation issued to a Glenwood Springs nursing home in 2025, a state inspector wrote that a resident \u201csaid he sometimes called for assistance before he actually needed it because he knew he would have to wait for a long time.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services  of elder care in Colorado, based on unannounced visits at 20 facilities in 2022, concluded that inadequate oversight by state regulators and nursing home managers, along with high staffing turnover, led to 556 deficiencies. Those included 165 deficiencies related to life safety requirements, 210 related to emergency preparedness and 181 related to infection control.<\/p>\n<p>Seniors and families turn to assisted living and nursing facilities to ensure needs are met and count on the caregivers. Pushing a call button to summon help often is done reluctantly, according to state ombudsmen.<\/p>\n<p>And when nobody responds, \u201cyou feel helpless,\u201d said Sherrie Jarrett, 79, recalling her experience in a Parker assisted living center where she and her late husband lived.<\/p>\n<p>The center initially offered \u201cmystery trips,\u201d frozen yogurt gatherings and pottery to combat isolation. But then Jarrett fell, breaking her hip. Staffing decreased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t have an activities director for almost five years\u201d and \u201cat the tail end it was depressing,\u201d she said. Jarrett moved to a nursing home where the staffing is sufficient to ensure swift responses, she said. \u201cThat\u2019s who your day-to-day contact is with, the staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around Colorado, state health department citations have led to at least 317 fines for violations since 2023, the earliest date in recent federal records. The average nursing home fine in 2025 was $20,563, and assisted living center fines average around $2,000, according to industry records. Colorado holds money from the fines collected each year in a nursing home penalties account, which this year had a balance of nearly $20 million.<\/p>\n<p>The administrators of facilities \u2014 83% of them for-profit, up from 76% a decade ago, a higher proportion than in most other states \u2014 must pay fines from their operating budgets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLow profit margins\u201d constrain companies from paying higher wages, and \u201cit\u2019s difficult to compete with other parts of the healthcare system for nurses,\u201d said Doug Farmer, president of the Colorado Health Care Association, which represents the for-profit long-term care companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFines are an outdated compliance tool,\u201d Farmer said. \u201cI don\u2019t see the rationale in citing a care center for inadequate staff and then taking money from them as a punishment. If they need more staff or to increase staff training, taking money from them is contrary to that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Industry blames nurse shortage<\/h4>\n<p>Long-term care industry leaders blame workforce challenges, saying companies are hard-pressed to recruit and retain enough certified caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>The annual turnover rate in Colorado facilities is 47%, and nursing home companies\u2019 annual profits average around 2%, said Jenny Albertson, the Colorado Health Care Association\u2019s director of quality and regulatory affairs, who previously ran nursing homes for 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>Cuts in Medicaid funding will exacerbate pressures, reducing the $288 daily per-resident rate paid to facilities in Colorado by 2% starting July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado\u2019s overall nursing shortage has intensified, with the federal Health Resources and Services Administration projecting the state will be short 7,100 licensed practical nurses and 6,090 registered nurses by 2034.<\/p>\n<p>Running a nursing home with nearly one in two nurses leaving each year \u201cis a struggle,\u201d Albertson said. \u201cYou lose that brain trust that knows what it means to give patient-centered care. It brings chaos. It sucks away resources from the actual act of caregiving,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing workforce pressures reaching a critical mass,\u201d she said. \u201cNursing homes have to right-size to the care they can provide by closing their doors to new admissions. We\u2019re seeing a need to cap the care we can provide in order to do it well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, state ombudsmen blame commercial profit priorities and low wages \u2014 nurse aides typically earn less than $20 a hour \u2014 that force many facility caregivers to work second jobs, even after heavy 12-hour shifts. The ombudsmen point to impossible care burdens that cause burnout, irregular schedules, lack of training and the difficulty of taking care of seniors who, in previous decades, would have qualified for hospital care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we\u2019re looking at private-equity-owned facilities, we see a systemwide stripping down of the quality of life. The food goes down. The care goes down. Staff leaves. It\u2019s a revolving door,\u201d McMahon said. \u201c\u2026The bottom line is the dollar, not people care.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Two hours of care per day<\/h4>\n<p>A Colorado rule requires companies to ensure at least two hours of nursing care per resident per day. This year, state officials and the industry are debating whether to keep that minimum standard.<\/p>\n<p>At the federal level, Trump administration officials on Dec. 2 repealed a proposed 3.48 hours-of-care requirement, replacing it with a looser standard that \u201csufficient\u201d care is acceptable. On Dec. 3, Trump officials also repealed a federal rule requiring 24\/7 on-site registered nursing service.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado still has a state-level registered nurse requirement on the books, but since 2021, health overseers have been waiving that requirement at all nursing homes if a registered nurse is on call, a licensed practical nurse is present and medications are carefully managed.<\/p>\n<p>State health officials don\u2019t know how many nursing homes keep a registered nurse on-site 24\/7, Department of Public Health and Environment spokeswoman Alexandrea Kallin said.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado regulators who recently began a formal rulemaking process had suggested a state-level minimum of three hours of nursing care per resident. The Colorado Health Care Association objected, favoring alignment with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have allegations of people literally not being seen for days,\u201d said Shannon Gimbel, manager of the ombudsman investigations across an eight-county metro Denver area.\u00a0\u201cUnderstaffing is significant in any complaint we get. It is usually the underlying cause, and if companies are only required to provide two hours of care, that\u2019s what they are going to provide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gimbel worked in nursing homes for two decades and is participating in the rulemaking discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2290\">Today in History: July 5, Hormel introduces the world to Spam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe industry will scream that facilities are not going to be able to afford to stay open. Elder-care advocates will argue that the burdens on staff are too great and that companies should pay better wages and provide a better work-life balance\u2026 The system is failing, and the staffing in the facilities is dismal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h4>Colorado\u2019s aging population<\/h4>\n<p>The demand for elder care in nursing and assisted living facilities is projected to increase\u00a0<span>as\u00a0Colorado\u2019s population ages<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>While the state\u2019s average age of 38 remains slightly younger than the national average, residents who are over 60 now outnumber those under 18\u00a0for the first time in state history. The population most likely to use nursing and assisted living facilities, those who are 75 and over, is the fastest-growing segment, according to the Colorado Department of Local Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Colorado residents over 80, estimated by state demographers at 201,806, is projected to increase by 75% and reach 353,452 before 2034. That would be 5.4% of the state\u2019s population, or one in 20 residents.<\/p>\n<p>More will need care in facilities, requiring 59,340 registered nurses and 12,970 licensed practical nurses by 2034, according to industry projections. Colorado nursing and assisted living facilities hold a total of about 46,000 beds, with a nursing home occupancy rate around 80%, according to industry data.<\/p>\n<p>By 2034, industry officials estimated Colorado would need 50 additional nursing homes and 40 more assisted living centers.<\/p>\n<p>While growing numbers of older people rely on in-home care, it becomes more costly than care in facilities when they need 24\/7 attention, said Deborah Lively, chief executive for LeadingAge, which represents non-profit facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The workforce challenges have intensified as corporate owners of nursing homes and assisted living facilities focus on \u201ctrying to do more with less,\u201d Lively said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s scary to think about it. There are all these aging people, and there are not enough workers to take care of them,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know how it is going to be addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>State enforcement<\/h4>\n<p>Officials at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment say they are enforcing state and federal rules aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>However, the federal rule that previously required 24\/7 onsite registered nurse service, reduced by Trump officials effective Feb. 2, now only requires that a nurse be \u201con duty or present for at least eight consecutive hours each day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colorado\u2019s rules still say facilities must keep a registered nurse on-site 24\/7, but under the waiver, facilities get by with a registered nurse or physician on-call, a licensed practical nurse present and a clear policy for managing medications<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are concerned anytime a facility\u2019s systems break down in ways that put residents at risk. Residents rely on facilities to provide safe, appropriate care, and CDPHE\u2019s oversight is focused on ensuring facilities meet those responsibilities,\u201d said Elaine McManis, the state health department\u2019s director of health facilities and emergency medical services. \u201cOur concern increases when problems are repeated, systemic, or not corrected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State health officials will decide in February about a state-level standard for hours of care per resident, said Dr. Ned Calonge, Colorado\u2019s chief medical officer. State rules require \u201cthe level of care and service that each resident needs, regardless of the hours set in the minimum standard,\u201d Calonge said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re having discussions with stakeholders about the standards we want to see for the industry. Is two hours enough? Or three hours? Have we set the floor at the right level? That\u2019s what we\u2019re talking about,\u201d he said. \u201cOn the side of the patients and their families, they want more contact with licensed professional nurses. And from the industry side, it is: \u2018What cost does that translate to?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since January 2023, 10 nursing homes in Colorado have shut down, a loss of 418 beds, along with 66 assisted living facilities, where 1,391 more beds were lost, according to the state.\u00a0Health officials declined to identify the facilities or to specify reasons, other than saying that the long-term care industry opens facilities and increases or decreases beds based on business factors.<\/p>\n<p>This year, one nursing home reported failing to meet the two-hour care standard, and 10 facilities didn\u2019t provide data. State officials also declined to identify those facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCDPHE\u2019s goal is not to close facilities. Our goal is safe resident care. We use a range of tools depending on the severity of the issue, including directed plans of correction, temporary management, conditional licenses, denial of license renewal, revocations, and closure when necessary,\u201d McManis said.<\/p>\n<h4>\u2018This is my home now\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>Inside the Life Care Center of Littleton, southwest of Denver, administrator Sara Dent last month had beds for 115 residents, along with an additional 35 seniors sent by hospitals to the facility for short-term rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>The center\u2019s nurse and support staff numbered 195, and Dent said residents receive 3.97 hours a day of nurse care. The facility is one of more than 200 in 27 states run by Tennessee-based Life Care Centers of America.<\/p>\n<p>Dent knows the residents by name. She knows the caregivers, including a 75-year-old Spanish-speaking dishwasher who said she hoped to retire and become a resident of the facility where she\u2019s worked for two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Most staffers work second jobs to make ends meet, Dent said. She pays the nurse aides $19.29 an hour, the minimum wage in Denver, more than the state-required $15.16 that applies in Littleton.<\/p>\n<p>Dent works to instill a culture of swift response anytime a light outside a room door flashes on.\u00a0\u201cOur patients have to come first,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents said they were mostly comfortable and pleased with the facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss my yard at home. I miss my dog,\u201d said William Reitz, 94, a retired engineer, sitting in a wheelchair by his bed, across from a framed photo of his departed spouse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I still have it mentally,\u201d Reitz said. He discussed with Dent the plan to upgrade his wheelchair to a motorized version so that he could roll around the building and grounds independently, as long as his insurance would cover the cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I won\u2019t be pestering people to push me,\u201d he said, noting he\u2019d still be attending daily exercise sessions. \u201cI\u2019ll be able to do it on my own\u2026 This is my home now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For artist Terry Dunlap, 81, the main priority is \u201cto be able to paint,\u201d following head injuries in 2025 that necessitated a move from her family home in Conifer.\u00a0She sat surrounded by scores of her abstract paintings, a Cat Stevens song playing as she worked in a two-room suite she\u2019s converted to a studio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish there were more staff here at night. I\u2019d like to walk. You have to have a CNA (certified nursing assistant) with you. So I get a bit frustrated,\u201d Dunlap said, though she assessed the overall conditions positively. \u201cJust a couple more\u201d staffers would help, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Like other nursing home administrators, Dent said she regularly sees state health inspectors. Each time they arrive at the facility, \u201cthey are hunting\u201d for any deficiency, such as a rug positioned by the front entrance that could be deemed a tripping hazard, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents are reluctant to file complaints with state ombudsmen, fearing retaliation or even involuntary discharge, said Jayla Sanchez-Warren, director of the Denver Regional Council of Governments\u2019 Area Agency on Aging.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Sanchez-Warren visited a relative in her 80s with dementia inside a facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was hungry. She did not know when she last had a shower,\u201d Sanchez-Warren said, adding that she couldn\u2019t find anybody on the facility\u2019s staff with the authority to help.<\/p>\n<p>She asked her relative whether she wanted her to press a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said, \u2018No, don\u2019t you make it harder for me,\u2019 \u201d Sanchez-Warren said. \u201cShe was fearing retaliation. Once you leave, they are still there. They have to deal with it if you cause problems. She was adamant. \u2018Don\u2019t you cause me problems.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get health news sent straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2288\">Colorado wildfires grow by 41 square miles on hot, dry Fourth<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conditions in nursing homes and assisted living centers around Colorado, where residents often receive as little as two hours of direct care each day, are deteriorating. 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