Gold Crest Care Center

Gold Crest Care Center is a large facility located in Bronx, New York. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of C, which is a good rating. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. The best part of this nursing home's profile is its remarkable inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in that category, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This facility also excelled in the area of long-term care, with first-rate score of A- in this area. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.41694 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly is often a deadly health condition for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.12 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

In addition, we gave this nursing home an F in the category of short-term care. Short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. With its abysmal score in this area, we weren't shocked to find that this nursing home provides substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 37.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

The last area we assessed is nursing, which proved to be this facility's weakest category. We gave it an F in this category, which is obviously very disappointing. Nursing scores are heavily correlated with levels of nurse staffing. This particular place offered just 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This statistic is well below the national average. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this nursing home was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric.