Bear Creek Senior Living

Is Bear Creek Senior Living a licensed assisted living residence in Colorado Springs, CO?

Yes. Bear Creek Senior Living holds an active CDPHE assisted living license for 137 beds, larger than the 31-bed midpoint of the 69 senior assisted living residences we track in El Paso and Teller counties.

CDPHE's coding shows no Medicaid ACF certification, so plan on private funds, long-term care insurance or VA pension here; a resident who later needs Medicaid would usually have to move to an ACF.

How many citations has Bear Creek Senior Living received?

CDPHE's Find and Compare record shows 8 inspections at Bear Creek Senior Living with 14 citations across 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, more than the median of 13 citations for senior ALRs in the two counties; the most recent visit listed is dated April 22, 2026.

Most recent inspection entries on the record:

Of the visits shown, 7 listed visits involved a complaint investigation. Per ten licensed beds that is about 1.0 citations against a two-county median of 4.4. A citation is a rule surveyors found unmet on that visit; ask the administrator for the statement of deficiencies and the plan of correction for the latest one.

What do occurrence reports show for Bear Creek Senior Living?

Bear Creek Senior Living filed 20 occurrence reports with CDPHE in the years shown (2023: 5, 2024: 4, 2025: 6, 2026: 5); the most recent listed is dated August 19, 2026, and the recent entries include physical abuse (3), verbal abuse, misappropriation of property.

Colorado requires licensed facilities to report certain events to CDPHE; the report starts the state's review and does not by itself mean the residence did something wrong. The two-county median for senior ALRs is 5 reports in the same window.

Can Bear Creek Senior Living care for a resident with dementia?

CDPHE's public data does not flag secure environments, so the record cannot tell you whether Bear Creek Senior Living has one; ask for the Part 25.4 disclosure, which any Colorado ALR that restricts residents' exit must provide before move-in.

Ask how many residents the secure area serves, who is inside it overnight, and what behavior would lead the residence to ask a resident with dementia to move. Larger residences nearby that families often ask about for memory care: MorningStar at Bear Creek (0.3 mi, 60 beds), Brookdale Skyline (ALR) (0.7 mi, 187 beds), The Residence at Skyway Park (1.4 mi, 68 beds).

Which licensed ALRs are closest to Bear Creek Senior Living?

The nearest other senior ALR is MorningStar at Bear Creek in Colorado Springs, about 0.3 miles away as the crow flies, licensed for 60 beds as a private-pay ALR.

What health care is near Bear Creek Senior Living in Colorado Springs?

Bear Creek Senior Living is in the Westside, Old Colorado City & Broadmoor part of Colorado Springs, and UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central is the closest general hospital on CDPHE's list, about 3.3 miles away in a straight line.

Penrose Hospital is next, roughly 3.5 miles off. Distances are straight-line, not driving times.

If nursing care becomes necessary, the two closest CMS-certified nursing homes are Bear Creek Senior Living (0.0 mi; CMS rating 4 of 5) and Brookdale Skyline (0.7 mi; CMS rating 4 of 5).

A nursing facility shares this campus: Bear Creek Senior Living. On a shared campus a resident can often move between levels of care without changing communities.

Which questions matter most at Bear Creek Senior Living?

Use the public record as your checklist: ask about the 14 citations on CDPHE's record and the plan of correction for the most recent visit.

• Ask what happened in the most recent occurrence report (August 19, 2026) and what the residence changed afterward.
• Ask for a sample week of staff schedules and count who is awake overnight; Colorado sets no ratio, so the schedule is the evidence.
• Ask whether the residence operates a secure environment and, if so, for its written Part 25.4 disclosure.
• Ask which charges rise as care needs rise and what notice comes before a rate change.