LIFE CARE CENTERS OF AMERICA, INC.
NPI 1437167152
Skilled Nursing Facility in Denver, CO
About Life Care Centers Of America, Inc. NPPES
Official registry information on file with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System.
LIFE CARE CENTERS OF AMERICA, INC. (NPI 1437167152), doing business as Briarwood Health Care Center, is a healthcare organization registered as a skilled nursing facility in Denver, Colorado and active in the NPI registry since August 2006. The organization holds a CLIA Waiver certificate valid through August 31, 2026 and lists Cindy S Cross, Assistant Secretary, as its authorized official.
NPPES Registry Identity
Specialties & Licenses 2
(1) A skilled nursing facility is a facility or distinct part of an institution whose primary function is to provide medical, continuous nursing, and other health and social services to patients who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring services in a hospital, but who require primary restorative or skilled nursing services on an inpatient basis above the level of intermediate or custodial care in order to reach a degree of body functioning to permit self care in essential daily living. It meets any licensing or certification standards et forth by the jurisdiction where it is located. A skilled nursing facility may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation; (2) Provides non-acute medical and skilled nursing care services, therapy and social services under the supervision of a licensed registered nurse on a 24-hour basis.
Other Names 1
Other Identifiers 1
CLIA Laboratory Certificates CMS CLIA
Laboratory certificates issued under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) program, which sets federal quality standards for human laboratory testing in the United States. There is no official CMS crosswalk between CLIA and NPI numbers; these certificates are associated with this NPI by matching facility names, locations and phone numbers in the CMS CLIA registry.
Certificate of Waiver 06D0677890
Briarwood Health Care Center · Denver, CONursing Home Quality Information
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services publishes the Nursing Home Compare star rating data to provide consumers an easy way to compare nursing home's quality of care.
| Overall Quality Rating | - 2 out of 5 stars - Below Average |
| The overall star rating is based on a nursing homes's performance on health inspections, staffing and quality measures. | |
| Health Inspection Rating | Not Available |
| The health inspection star rating is based on a nursing home’s weighted score from the most recent health inspections. | |
| Quality Measures Rating | - 2 out of 5 stars - Below Average |
| The quality measures star rating is based on data from a select set of clinical measures. | |
| Long-Stay Quality Measures Rating | - 3 out of 5 stars - Average |
| The long-stay quality of care rating is based on the quality of care delivered to long-term residents only. | |
| Short-Stay Quality Measures Rating | - 1 out of 5 stars - Much Below Average |
| The short-stay quality of care rating is based on the quality of care delivered to temporary residents only. | |
| Staffing Rating | - 4 out of 5 stars - Above Average |
| The staffing rating is based on the star rating based on the nursing home’s staffing hours for Registered Nurses (RNs), Licensed Practice Nurses (LPNs), Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVNs) and Nurse aides. | |
| Nurse Aide Staffing Hours | 2.48 hours per resident per day |
| Nurse aide hours per resident per day. Higher number of hours are better. | |
| RN Staffing Hours | 0.68 hours per resident per day |
| Resgistered nurse hours per resident per day. Higher number of hours are better. | |
| RN Staff Turnover | 43.8% |
| Resgistered nurse turnover is the percentage of registered nursing staff who stop working at the facility within a given year. | |
| Ownership Type | For profit - Corporation |
| Is the facility private for profit, not-for profit or publicly owned. | |
| Number of Certified Beds | 201 beds |
| Number of beds in the nursing home that have been approved by the federal government to participate in the Medicare or Medicaid programs. | |
| Residents per Day | 80 residents |
| Average number of residents living in the facility per day. | |
| Automatic Sprinkler Systems | Yes |
| Does the facility have automatic sprinkler systems in all required areas? | |
| Facility Reported Incidents | 0 incidents |
| Number of facility-reported incidents in the past 3 years. A lower number is better. | |
| Substantiated Complaints | 0 complaints |
| Number of substantiated complaints in the past 3 years. A lower number is better. | |
| Citations from Inspections | citations after infection control inspection |
| Number of citations from infection control inspections in the past 3 years. A lower number is better. | |
| Total Number of Penalties | 3 penalties from a serious health, fire safety or long-term unresolved citation |
| The Medicare program may impose penalties on a facilty when there's serious health or fire safety citations or if the facility fails to correct a citation for a long period of time. | |
| Number of Fines | 3 fines |
| Toal number of fines in the last 3 years. A penalty can be a fine against the facility or denied payments from Medicare. | |
| Amount of Fines | $67,148.25 |
| Total monetary amount of fine imposed on the facility in the last 3 years. | |
Other Providers at the Same Location NPPES 7
Providers registered at the same practice address, or within the immediate area, according to the NPPES registry.
DENVER, CO 80206
Frequently Asked Questions
The NPI number assigned to this healthcare provider is 1437167152, enumerated as an "organization" on August 05, 2006.
The provider is located at 1440 VINE ST DENVER, CO 80206 and the phone number is (303) 399-0350.
Skilled Nursing Facility with taxonomy code 314000000X.
The provider might be accepting Accepts: Medicare and Medicaid. Please consult your insurance carrier or call the provider to verify.
