Sloan's Lake Rehabilitation Center: Staffing, Turnover, and Inspection Record
Sloan's Lake Rehabilitation Center is a 42-bed for-profit nursing home in Denver, Colorado, part of The Ensign Group. In the CMS August 2026 release it reported 2.59 nurse aide hours per resident per day, 17% above the Colorado average of 2.22, and 31.0% nursing staff turnover (Colorado average 47.1%).
Sloan's Lake Rehabilitation Center
1601 Lowell BlvdDenver, CO 80204
Denver County
CMS Care Compare, August 2026 release
How many staff hours residents get
CMS reports staffing as hours per resident per day, from the payroll records each home submits. At Sloan's Lake Rehabilitation Center, nurse aides logged 2.59 hours per resident per day, 17% above the Colorado average. With about 39 residents a day, that works out to roughly 101 aide hours a day, or about 13 eight-hour aide shifts across day, evening, and night. On weekends, total nursing hours per resident ran 15% below the all-days figure.
| Hours per resident per day | This home | Colorado avg | US avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nurse aides (CNAs) | 2.59 | 2.22 | 2.32 |
| Licensed practical nurses | 1.16 | 0.68 | 0.86 |
| Registered nurses | 0.84 | 0.82 | 0.69 |
| All nursing staff | 4.59 | 3.72 | 3.86 |
| All nursing staff, weekends | 3.91 | 3.30 | 3.42 |
CMS Care Compare, August 2026 release: reported staffing hours from Payroll-Based Journal data, and CMS state and US averages.
Staff turnover
31.0% of nursing staff at Sloan's Lake Rehabilitation Center left over the year CMS measured, against a Colorado average of 47.1% and a US average of 45.8%. Registered nurse turnover was 50.0%. No administrators left over the same period.
Inspections and penalties
State inspectors last completed a standard health inspection on Mar 5, 2026. The most recent inspection cycle, which also counts complaint and infection-control inspections from the past 12 months, found 1 health deficiency (Colorado average 8.6). CMS lists no fines or payment denials for this home in the last three years.
CMS star ratings
CMS rates every nursing home from one to five stars overall and on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. Sloan's Lake Rehabilitation Center holds 5 of 5 overall; the Colorado average is 3.1.
About Sloan's Lake Rehabilitation Center
- Ownership: For profit - Limited Liability company
- Chain: The Ensign Group, 342 homes
- Legal name: Lakewood Healthcare, Inc.
- Medicare and Medicaid certified since: Jan 30, 2013
- Councils: resident council
- Area: urban
Nursing homes near Sloan's Lake Rehabilitation Center
The closest homes by distance, with the same CMS figures. Select a column to sort.
| Juniper Village - the Spearly Center Denver | 1.5 | 135 | 1.68 | 2.76 | 52.6% | 2 | $267,831 |
| Edgewater Health and Rehabilitation Lakewood | 1.6 | 67 | 2.05 | 3.33 | 46.8% | 5 | None |
| Cedars Healthcare Center Lakewood | 1.6 | 130 | 1.87 | 3.18 | 26.7% | 3 | $55,908 |
| Cambridge Care Center Lakewood · abuse citation | 1.6 | 110 | 1.63 | 2.90 | 32.8% | 3 | $8,151 |
| Sierra Post Acute Lakewood · abuse citation | 1.6 | 102 | 2.33 | 3.80 | 50.0% | 2 | $54,903 |
| Wheatridge Care Center Wheat Ridge | 2.0 | 65 | 1.92 | 3.34 | 50.0% | 3 | $20,616 |
| Oakwood Care and Rehabilitation Lakewood · abuse citation | 2.0 | 170 | 1.95 | 3.00 | 53.7% | 1 | $217,271 |
| Mapleton Post Acute Lakewood | 2.3 | 90 | 2.19 | 3.18 | 50.0% | 4 | None |
Aide hrs and all nurse hrs are staff hours per resident per day. Fines are the CMS total for the last three years. Turnover is the share of nursing staff who left over a year. All figures from CMS Care Compare.
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Source: CMS Care Compare Provider Information, State and US Averages, and Penalties files, August 2026 release. Figures are as CMS publishes them; check Medicare Care Compare for the latest. Methodology.