Rock Creek Rehabilitation And Healthcare Center is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 1991-06-05. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (719) 852-5138 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Rock Creek Rehabilitation And Healthcare Center holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 2 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (2★), Staffing (3★), and Quality of Resident Care (4★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 75.1/100, placing it #5904 of 14703 facilities nationally and #102 of 210 in Colorado. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Rock Creek Rehabilitation And Healthcare Center receives a reported average of 3 hours 26 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 1 hour 10 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 38 minutes; Nurse Aide — 1 hour 38 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 3 hours 10 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 3 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 34.5%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 2 fine(s) totaling $42,008. No substantiated complaints have been recorded in the available data. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 2 fine(s) totaling $42,008, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 2. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 92.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Rock Creek Rehabilitation And Healthcare Center ranks 5904th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 75.1/100), placing it in the above average nationwide. Within CO, it ranks 102nd out of 210 nursing homes. In Monte Vista, it ranks 2nd out of 2 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 2nd of 2. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #9,731 nationally and RN hours rank #1,241 nationally (#34 in CO). Our composite quality score of 75.1/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Monte Vista, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/colorado/monte-vista/