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Bear Creek Center

  • Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: C
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Bear Creek Center's website

150 Spring Street,
Morrison CO 80465

(303) 697-8181

56.72% estimated occupancy 1

Bear Creek Center is a facility in Morrison, Colorado, which has 15,147 people. We gave this facility an overall grade of C. A score of this caliber requires some decent marks. As far as we can see, this nursing home ought to be a good fit for most people. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its impressive nursing rating, which we will address in the next section.

Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Corporation

Registered Staff Hours

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Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received a much better grade for nursing than it received overall. In fact, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Our nursing grade is based on quite a few datapoints, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

This nursing home also received a strong short-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we awarded them a B+ in this area, which happens to be one of our better. Our short-term care grades are probably most critical for people needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B-minus

Turning to our inspection category, it appears this nursing home has earned respectable inspections in recent years as well. We gave it a B- in this category. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: F

The final category we looked at was long-term care. We gave it an abysmal F for this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is clearly a major concern. Nursing homes that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine personal care we assessed. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 74.19355 percent of its residents. This is many points below what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Sep 22

Bear Creek Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Bear Creek Center, 5.86% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In Bear Creek Center, 3.47% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a fall which caused severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: A+

In Bear Creek Center, 2.14% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections could be linked to poor hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Bear Creek Center, 17.6% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients which are administered antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such drugs are not medically required. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these drugs due to an increased number of residents with dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Bear Creek Center, 12.24% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are given to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Bear Creek Center, 3.81% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients showing depressive symptoms. High rates of depression could indicate a lower level of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Bear Creek Center, 84.99% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines vital to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: C

In Bear Creek Center, 15.45% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of decline of a resident's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Bear Creek Center, 19.26% Percentage of Residents

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to patients health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: A-plus

In Bear Creek Center, 1.08 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Bear Creek Center, 19.26 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In Bear Creek Center, 75.71% Percentage of Resident

This indicates the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's generally correlates with superior rehabilitation services.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Orthocolorado Hospital at St Anthony Med CampusAcute Care Hospitals 5.63 miles away11650 West 2nd Place Denver Colorado 80228Proprietary(720) 321-5000
  • Centura Health-St Anthony HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 5.66 miles away11600 West 2nd Plc Denver Colorado 80228Voluntary non-profit - Church(720) 321-0000
  • Lutheran Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 9.72 miles away8300 W 38th Ave Wheat Ridge Colorado 80033Voluntary non-profit - Private(303) 425-4500
  • Swedish Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.22 miles away501 E Hampden Ave Englewood Colorado 80113Proprietary(303) 788-5000
  • Centura Health-Porter Adventist HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 11.72 miles away2525 S Downing St Denver Colorado 80210Voluntary non-profit - Private(303) 778-1955
  • Denver Health Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 11.95 miles away777 Bannock St Denver Colorado 80204Government - State(303) 602-4930
  • Centura Health-Littleton Adventist HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.1 miles away7700 S Broadway Littleton Colorado 80122Voluntary non-profit - Church(303) 730-8900
  • Saint Joseph HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.34 miles away1375 E 19th Ave Denver Colorado 80218Voluntary non-profit - Private(303) 812-2000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Kidney Center of Bear Creek (Ara)4.23 miles away11058 West Jewell Ave Denver Colorado 80232Dialysis Stations: 15 (303) 233-4204
  • West Lakewood Dialysis Center (Dva)5.3 miles away11700 W 2nd Pl, Ste 325 Denver Colorado 80228Dialysis Stations: 14 (303) 987-4672
  • Southwest Denver Dialysis (Dva)5.83 miles away8601 W Cross Dr Suite c2 Littleton Colorado 80123Dialysis Stations: 8 (303) 933-2367
  • Lakewood Crossing Dialysis (Dva)6.64 miles away1057 S Wadsworth Blvd Ste 100 Denver Colorado 80226Dialysis Stations: 22 (720) 962-6199
  • Kidney Center of Lakewood (Ara)7.89 miles away6166 W Alameda Ave Denver Colorado 80226Dialysis Stations: 21 (303) 922-6371
  • Mile High Pd (Dva)9.04 miles away1750 Pierce St Ste A Denver Colorado 80214Dialysis Stations: 3 (303) 232-0939
  • Lakewood Dialysis (Dva)9.04 miles away1750 Pierce St Denver Colorado 80214CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (303) 238-6111
  • Kidney Center of Wheat Ridge (Ara)10.19 miles away6920 W 38th Ave Wheat Ridge Colorado 80033Dialysis Stations: 16 (303) 463-3041

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=065188