Cambridge Care Center

Cambridge Care Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Denver, Colorado. This facility appears to be one of the higher-rated nursing homes we assessed. A grade of this caliber requires first-rate scores across the board. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top third of all facilities nationally. The best aspect of this nursing home's impressive report card is its nursing rating. We discuss nursing in the next paragraph

In addition to earning a great overall score, this nursing home excelled in our nursing category. We gave it an A for that area. We assessed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of time those nurses were with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. This facility provided 3 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility has received near flawless health inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite minor. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. We would like to have more information about this facility. Without having access to all of the information regarding deficiencies, it was challenging to evaluate this nursing home in the inspections category.

Turning to the third category, this facility also received a grade of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. In computing these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of care from registered nurses to its residents. The final item we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. It was respectable in this area with 49 percent of its residents returning home.

The fourth area we assessed was long-term care, where this nursing home received a grade of B+. This completed an elite report card. Few facilities earned a B+ or higher in each of our categories. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is much higher than the majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.