Briarwood Health Care Center
Nursing home in Denver, CO
Medicare & Medicaid certified5★ overall (CMS)
Public-record details
- Address
- 1440 Vine St, Denver, CO 80206
- Phone
- (303) 399-0350
- Listed under
- For-profit, 4–5 star overall rating
- Medicare CCN
- 065255
- Overall star rating
- 5 of 5 ★★★★★
- Health inspection rating
- 4 of 5
- Staffing rating
- 4 of 5
- Quality measures rating
- 5 of 5
- Certified beds
- 201
- Average residents per day
- 88
- Ownership
- For-profit, corporation
- Legal business name
- Life Care Centers of America, INC.
- Chain
- Life Care Centers of America (194 facilities)
- Certified for
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First approved by Medicare/Medicaid
- Feb 17, 1989
- Changed ownership in last 12 months
- No
- Continuing care retirement community
- No
- Located inside a hospital
- No
- Resident or family council
- Resident council
- Sprinklers in all required areas
- Yes
Inspection record
Most recent standard health inspection: Oct 3, 2024. CMS lists 22 health citations for this facility across its last three standard inspection cycles and complaint inspections (Mar 15, 2022 to Jul 16, 2025): 1 from complaint inspections, 5 at the “actual harm” level or higher, including 1 at “immediate jeopardy”.
| Inspection | Citation | Severity |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2025 | Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. | G |
| Oct 3, 2024 | Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. | D |
| Oct 3, 2024 | Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. | D |
| Oct 3, 2024 | Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services. | D |
| Oct 3, 2024 | Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area. | D |
| May 9, 2023 | Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care. | D |
| May 9, 2023 | Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason. | D |
| May 9, 2023 | Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. | D |
| May 9, 2023 | Provide activities to meet all resident's needs. | D |
| May 9, 2023 | Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. | D |
| May 9, 2023 | Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason. | D |
| May 9, 2023 | Ensure that the resident and his/her doctor meet face-to-face at all required visits. | D |
Fines and payment denials
CMS records 1 fine totalling $9,110 in the last three years.
| Jul 16, 2025 | Fine: $9,110 |
Staffing
- Total nurse staffing per resident per day
- 3.90 hours
- Registered nurse (RN) time per resident per day
- 0.71 hours
- Nurse aide time per resident per day
- 2.38 hours
- Total nurse staffing on weekends
- 3.52 hours
- Nursing staff turnover (yearly)
- 44%
- RN turnover (yearly)
- 21%
- Administrators who left in the past year
- 1
A citation is what inspectors found on one date; most are corrected within weeks. Look for patterns — the same problem cited in several inspections — and for anything at the G–L level (actual harm or immediate jeopardy). The full inspection narrative (Form CMS-2567) is linked from Medicare Care Compare, and your state long-term care ombudsman can tell you about complaints.
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