Berkley Manor Care Center

Located in Denver, Colorado, Berkley Manor Care Center is one of 43 facilities here. This facility received an excellent grade of A- overall. This is better than the city grade of B+ in Denver, which is also well above average. We simply can not say enough favorable things about this nursing home. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

On top of faring well overall, this facility received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in this area with a grade of A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite minor. This place was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was elite in the category of long-term care, where it received a grade of A-. Very few nursing homes fared better in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to patients. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 97.95082 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. This place also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.52 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This nursing home also was awarded a strong short-term care score. This actually ended up being this facility's third strongest category score. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. Short-term care grades are typically used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation To offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that it fared respectably with 48.4 percent of its patients returning home.

The next area we assessed is this facility's poorest category. However, even its worst category would actually be a strength for most nursing homes. We awarded it a favorable grade of B for nursing. Nursing scores are primarily tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.