Accel at Golden Ridge

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our short-term care grade. With our short-term care grade, we try to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Remarkably, this nursing home provides about 50% more services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is a very favorable sign. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the nation with 68.1 percent of its residents returning home.

We also wanted to emphasize this facility's nearly flawless health inspections in recent years. We gave them an impressive grade of A- in this area. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. 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.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing grade assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of those nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This particular facility provided 4.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This was one of the better figures we found. Furthermore, we found that a significant percentage of this care was provided by registered nurses, which are highly skilled nurses. These are both really impressive figures. In addition to looking at levels of nursing care, we also looked at a few quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these statistics as predictive indicators of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The next area we analyzed is long-term care. We awarded this facility a grade of D in our long-term care category, rendering this its least impressive category. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After assessing nursing hours provided by this facility, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. Based on its grade in this category, we were surprised to find that this facility performed reasonably well both statistics. Indeed, this nursing home vaccinated 97.22222 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is higher than the average nursing home. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.