Arapahoe County

Nursing homes in Aurora, Colorado

2
rated one or two stars
1
with an immediate jeopardy finding
10 of 11
staffed below the research benchmark for the residents they have
$56,966
in federal fines since 2023 across these 11 homes

There are 11 Medicare-certified nursing homes in Aurora. 2 of them are rated one or two stars, the lowest two grades Medicare gives. Medicare grades inspections on a curve inside each state, so those stars are a rank inside Colorado, not a national score.

All 11 nursing homes in Aurora

Every Medicare-certified nursing home with an Aurora address. The labels on each card come from Medicare’s own records. What each one counts is below.

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Veterans Community Living Center at Fitzsimons 1919 Quentin St, Aurora 80045 · 180 beds Abuse or neglect citation, no harm recorded1 immediate jeopardy finding
3 out of 5
Lowry Hills Care and Rehabilitation 10201 E 3rd Ave, Aurora 80010 · 108 beds Abuse or neglect citation8 findings of actual harmNo standard inspection in over 2 years33% below expected staffing$2,516 in federal fines
2 out of 5
University Heights Care Center 656 Dillon Way, Aurora 80011 · 105 beds Carries Medicare’s abuse warningAbuse or neglect citation, no harm recorded2 findings of actual harm39% below expected staffing
3 out of 5
Life Care Center of Aurora 14101 E Evans Ave, Aurora 80014 · 166 beds 2 findings of actual harm17% below expected staffing$33,222 in federal fines
5 out of 5
The Springs at St. Andrews Village 2670 S Abilene St, Aurora 80014 · 58 beds 1 finding of actual harm32% below expected staffing$14,220 in federal fines
3 out of 5
Aviva at Fitzsimons 13525 E 23rd Ave, Aurora 80045 · 100 beds 1 finding of actual harm20% below expected staffing$7,008 in federal fines
4 out of 5
Highland Park Rehabilitation & Care Center 500 Geneva St, Aurora 80010 · 110 beds Abuse or neglect citation, no harm recorded1 finding of actual harm31% below expected staffing
5 out of 5
Advanced Health Care of Aurora 1800 S Potomac St, Aurora 80012 · 54 beds 1 finding of actual harm13% below expected staffing
5 out of 5
Hampden Hills Post Acute 14699 E Hampden Ave, Aurora 80014 · 218 beds Abuse or neglect citation, no harm recorded36% below expected staffing
2 out of 5
Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence 1600 S Potomac St, Aurora 80012 · 120 beds Abuse or neglect citation, no harm recorded21% below expected staffing
4 out of 5
Beth Israel at Shalom Park 14800 E Belleview Dr, Aurora 80015 · 135 beds 15% below expected staffing
5 out of 5

What the labels on each card mean

What a star means here

Medicare grades the inspection part of a star rating on a curve inside each state, so a star here is a rank against other Colorado homes, not a national score. Medicare withholds the rating altogether from homes on its Special Focus Facility list, so a withheld rating is a warning, not missing data.

Short on staffing

The home reports fewer nurse and aide hours per resident per day than a published research benchmark expects for the residents it actually has. The benchmark is not a Medicare figure: we work it out from the home's own Medicare case-mix score using the CASE formula (Harrington and others, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2025). It is not a legal limit, and there is no federal minimum number of nursing hours per resident per day.

Immediate jeopardy

The most serious result an inspection can have. It means inspectors found a resident was in danger of serious harm or death. A finding of actual harm is the level below that. Both are counts of inspection tags across the last three inspection cycles on record, not counts of separate incidents. Fines are federal penalties recorded between 2023 and 2026.

Abuse, counted two ways

There are two official measures and they do not agree. Medicare puts an abuse warning on a home's profile when abuse was found and a resident was harmed, or when it happened twice, and takes the warning off after a year. Separately, inspectors cite homes under the abuse, resident property and involuntary seclusion tags, and those findings stay on the record. A home can carry one label, both, or neither, so the two are labeled separately on every card.

The Special Focus list

Medicare's list of homes with a persistent record of serious problems. Each state gets a small number of places on it. A candidate is a home in line for one of those places.

Arapahoe County has 19 Medicare-certified nursing homes. The 10 outside Aurora are in Littleton (4), Englewood (3), Centennial (2) and Greenwood Village (1).