Accel at Golden Ridge

On top of earning a strong overall score, this nursing home fared well in short-term care. We awarded it an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest grades. Short-term care grades are commonly used to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 6.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

In addition, this facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on its recent inspections. We gave it an A- for that category, which is one of our top grades. Inspection ratings are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing score. In fact, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. In computing our nursing grades, we look at both nursing hours and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we assessed is long-term care, turned out to be this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in that category. This really was one of the couple of weak points in a strong profile. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 97.22222 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.