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Gold City Health and Rehab

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: F
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222 Moore Drive,
Dahlonega GA 30533

(706) 864-3045

68.52% estimated occupancy 1

Gold City Health and Rehab is one of only two nursing homes located in Dahlonega, Georgia. We gave this nursing home an overall rating of F. As far as we can see, you would be better off to avoid of this nursing home. Finally, we were surprised to learn that this place received a decent grade in our long-term care category. We provide more information about this category below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Government - State

Specialized Services

  • Speech Therapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Pharmacy

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2022)
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Facility Inspections

Grade: B-minus

While this place's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We believe that one of the most important factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. In this regard, we especially focus on the severity of the deficiencies. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: D

Sadly, this nursing home only received a D for its long-term care score, which turns out to be one of its more favorable category scores. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this nursing home administered the vaccine to just 88.850174 percent of its patients, which is several points lower than we expected. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: F

This nursing home ended up receiving a an abysmal grade in our short-term care area. It received a lowly F in this category. In crafting these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Considering its abysmal rating in this category, we weren't shocked to find this facility offers far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 5.1 percent of its patients returning home.

Nurse Quality

Grade: F

Turning to our next area, this facility didn't fare well here either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this is really as terrible as it gets. The nursing score is based on a variety of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provided only 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this metric.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Gold City Health and Rehab Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 7.58% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of long-term patients which have pressure ulcers or bed sores. We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 1.39% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percent of residents that have had a fall which caused severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 1.89% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric could also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: F

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 36.8% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: D

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 28.78% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are commonly given to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: D

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 14.86% of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: D

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 81.59% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: D

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 22.75% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 25.54% of Residents

This tells you the percentage of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 25.54% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: D

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 18.04% of Patients

This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: F

In Gold City Health and Rehab, 56.18% of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Northeast Georgia Medical Center, IncAcute Care Hospitals 18.83 miles away743 Spring Street Gainesville Georgia 30501Government - Local(770) 535-3553

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fresenius Medical Care Lake Lanier15.83 miles away2565 Thompson Bridge Road Gainesville Georgia 30501Dialysis Stations: 10 (678) 450-0364
  • Fresenius Medical Care Gainesville16.68 miles away1856 Thompson Bridge Road Suite 101 Gainesville Georgia 30501CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (770) 534-6999
  • Gainesville Dialysis17.72 miles away2545 Flintridge Road Ste 130 Gainesville Georgia 30501Dialysis Stations: 15 (770) 536-7194
  • Jesse Jewell Dialysis18.82 miles away1475 Jesse Jewell Pkwy Ne Suite 110 Gainesville Georgia 30501Dialysis Stations: 13 (770) 538-7598
  • Northeast Georgia Home Training18.9 miles away1485 Jesse Jewell Parkway, Ne Gainesville Georgia 30501Dialysis Stations: 1 (770) 297-0547
  • Fresenius Medical Care Hall County18.91 miles away1492 Jesse Jewell Pkwy Se Gainesville Georgia 30501CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 15 (678) 989-0231

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=115689