Hallmark Nursing Center

With over 20 facilities to choose from in Denver, Colorado, Hallmark Nursing Center is one of the multitude of facilities here. This facility received a superb overall score of A, making it one of the fifteen highest rated facilities in the city. We flat out can not say enough great things about this facility. If you look further down this page, you can see this nursing home's category ratings, which are also impressive.

To pair with its strong overall score, we awarded this place a grade of A+ for our inspection category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be quite insignificant. We were not able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing grade analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a resident even once per day.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. Adding to its impressive profile, this facility also excelled in this area. In fact, we awarded it a of A- for that category. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 88.00959 percent of its patients against pneumonia. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.09 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this facility received a high-end short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a B+ in that category, finishing off one of our better profiles. Our short-term care ratings are thought to be most important for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. It performed better than most facilities in the country with 51.9 percent of its patients returning home.