Gold Crest Retirement Center

In addition to being a quality facility overall, this place really excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A. Not many facilities fared better in this area. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This nursing home was given an impressive short-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better grades in that area with a grade of B. Short-term care ratings are critical for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last item we considered in this category is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Our nursing score considers numerous subcategories. The most important variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next category we rated was long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. Our long-term care scores are more critical for people requiring more conventional services associated with personal care. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 93.478264 percent of its patients, which is a bit lower than we anticipated. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.