Hallmark Nursing Center is located in Denver, Colorado, which is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country. With an overall score of A-, this is undoubtedly an impressive nursing home. Even in a city offering 26 other nursing homes, this nursing home caught our attention as a superb choice. As you can find below, this nursing home also performed just fine in our category scores. It would be hard to find any major flaws in this place's profile.
Hallmark Nursing Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this ended up being a great nursing home is that it earned a very impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections ended up being its best category. In that category, we gave this facility an A. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it does not look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. We wish we had more information about this nursing home. Without all of the deficiency data, it ended up being difficult to really evaluate this nursing home in the inspections category.
Nurse Quality
We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A in our nursing category. Our nursing rating is largely tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics 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 nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a system of turning patients more often.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third area we analyzed was short-term care. Adding to its first-rate resume, this facility also performed well in this area. In fact, we gave it a grade of of A- for that area. Our short-term care grade is often employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Long-term Care Quality
Switching gears to the next category, this facility also performed well in our long-term care category. We awarded it a B+ in that area. This completed a very impressive report card. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 60.404625 percent of its residents. This is somewhat less than we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hallmark Nursing Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 5.67% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 3.72% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who have sustained a fall resulting in major injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 2.04% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this datapoint can be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 17.61% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are administered to patients for a variety of medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Sadly, in limited cases, increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 12.49% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term patients who are prescribed antianxiety medication. These drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 3.91% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are demonstrating symptoms of depression. Increased rates of depression could be a sign worse patient care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 84.62% of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 15.34% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and taking a bath.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 16.01% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 1.17 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is critical to the physical health of nursing home patients.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 16.01 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Avoiding rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical abilities of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 12.31 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Hallmark Nursing Center, 76.2% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with ADL's typically correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Scores for Denver, CO
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Dialysis
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- Littleton Dialysis (Dva)5.38 miles away209 W County Line Rd Littleton Colorado 80129Dialysis Stations: 17 (303) 730-7540
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