Grand River Health Care Center
701 E 5th St, Rifle, CO, 81650 · CCN 065381
Grand River Health Care Center is a CMS-certified skilled nursing facility located in Rifle, Colorado. This facility-specific record brings together official CMS provider, inspection, rating, and enforcement data while identifying what is missing or uncertain.
What stands out in the available record
The available records contain 7 cited deficiencies across 2 surveys. None of the available citations were coded at G or above, although later surveys could change that context.
1 of the most frequently cited tags appear more than once in the available history: F0689 (2). Repetition can indicate a recurring compliance area, but it is not proof that the same underlying problem remained uncorrected.
Survey history
- February 2024 — Health: 6 cited deficiencies
- July 2021 — Health: 1 cited deficiency
Scope and severity distribution
- Scope/severity D: 6 citations
- Scope/severity E: 1 citation
No available citations were coded at G or above. This statement is limited to the records currently available to POCDesk.
Top Deficiency Citations
- F0689 — Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2 citations)
- F0880 — Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (1 citation)
- F0742 — Provide the appropriate treatment and services to a resident who displays or is diagnosed with mental disorder or psychosocial adjustment difficulty, or who has a history of trauma and/or post-traumatic stress disorder. (1 citation)
- F0812 — Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (1 citation)
- F0759 — Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. (1 citation)
Deficiency categories
- Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies: 3 citations
- Infection Control Deficiencies: 1 citation
- Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies: 1 citation
- Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies: 1 citation
- Pharmacy Service Deficiencies: 1 citation
Official CMS Five-Star context
- Overall: 3 of 5 stars
- Health inspection: 2 of 5 stars
- Staffing: 5 of 5 stars
- Quality measure: 3 of 5 stars
CMS reports 4.85 total nurse staffing hours per resident day.
Five-Star values above are official CMS fields. POCDesk does not calculate or predict the official CMS rating.
Enforcement and penalties
The available CMS enforcement dataset contains 1 penalty action, most recently dated January 2026. Monetary fines in these records total $22,171.
Sources, freshness, and limitations
Source: official CMS datasets, including Provider Information, Health Deficiencies, and Penalties. View the CMS data source. Loaded survey records window — Earliest loaded survey: July 2021; Latest loaded survey: February 2024. These dates describe records loaded by POCDesk, not a CMS release or publication timestamp. Facility statistics refreshed: October 9, 2026 at 9:29 AM UTC. The available rating record has a CMS processing date of September 2026. POCDesk last refreshed that rating record on October 2026.
POCDesk groups citations by survey date, counts recurring F-Tags across the available history, and summarizes CMS scope/severity codes. Those summaries are POCDesk organization and interpretation of public records, not official ratings or survey findings of our own. Read the governing 42 CFR Part 483 and our editorial standards and methodology.
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