Colorado Springs Senior AdvisorHow does Colorado Springs Senior Advisor source its facts?
Every rule we describe is tied to the text of 6 CCR 1011-1 Chapter 7 or to the statute or agency page it came from, and every number traces to one named publication: CareScout's 2025 Cost of Care tables, HCPF's IM 25-030 for 2026 room and board, Colorado's January 2026 income and resource limits, the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimates and the VA's current pension tables.
These are the documents we work from:
- 6 CCR 1011-1, Chapter 7, Part 25: Secure Environment (effective March 17, 2025)
- CDPHE Find and Compare Facilities
- CDPHE Health Facilities complaint contacts
- CDPHE Assisted Living Residence consumer resources
- CDPHE Health Facilities feature service (data.colorado.gov)
- CMS Care Compare Provider Information
- HCPF IM 25-030: 2026 room and board and personal needs allowance
- Colorado income and resource limits, January 2026
- HCPF Case Management Agency directory
- HCPF Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
- CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025, median cost tables
- PPACG Area Agency on Aging and Yellow Book
- El Paso County Adult Protective Services
- VA Veterans Pension rates
- Census Vintage 2025 county estimates by age, Colorado
What does Colorado Springs Senior Advisor refuse to publish?
Anything we cannot trace back to a primary record: invented averages, facility claims that are not in CDPHE or CMS data, testimonials, star ratings of our own making and reviews.
- No Colorado Springs price median; the published CareScout tables are statewide.
- No memory care price median; nobody publishes one for Colorado.
- No list of secure environments; CDPHE does not publish one, and a guessed list would mislead.
- No grade or ranking for assisted living residences; neither CDPHE nor CMS rates them.
When is the Pikes Peak directory rebuilt?
Each rebuild pulls CDPHE's current facility list (the version on the site was updated September 29, 2026), each ALR's and nursing home's Find and Compare inspection record (retrieved November 6, 2026) and the CMS nursing home file dated October 1, 2026; the fetch script can be rerun at any time.
Listing pages print their data date in the source line. The sitemap's last-modified date for a page moves only when that page's text actually changes, not on every rebuild.
How do star ratings and inspection counts appear on the site?
Nursing home stars are shown only where CMS publishes them, in CMS's own terms and with CMS's data date, and CDPHE inspection, citation and occurrence counts are copied from each facility's Find and Compare record with the years they cover.
When a facility page says a residence has more citations than the local median, or that a home staffs above it, that is simple arithmetic on the published figures, and the page names the comparison group.
How are mistakes fixed?
Write to advisors@coloradospringssenioradvisor.com with the page address and what needs changing. We fix display errors ourselves; a wrong license field or CMS figure has to be corrected at its source, and we will tell you which agency to contact.
When a benefit amount or regulation changes, we check the new figure in the agency's own document first, update the reference page that owns it, and then every guide that quotes it.
