Golden Age Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center
27090 Hwy 16, Denham Springs LA 70726 · (225) 665-5544 · 98.4% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Golden Age Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center is one of a mere three available nursing homes located in Denham Springs, Louisiana. This is a relatively poor nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Sadly, this grade was right in line with the city grade in Denham Springs, which is also very poor. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 175 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite insignificant. 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. Despite this deficiency, this place still had a relatively favorable inspection report.
Long-term Care Quality
This facilities next most favorable area was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this category. Long-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 97.842834 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.33 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home.
Short-term Care Quality
The next category we graded was short-term care. This facility's received an abysmal short-term care score where it received a lowly F. In calculating these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our objective is to create a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. With its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. The final item we assessed in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 38.4 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
The final area we looked at is nursing. This facility was given a poor grade of F in that area. We looked at the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of time those nurses spent with residents, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home averaged just 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This statistic is well below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores hurt this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Golden Age Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injuries are often caused by lower quality nursing care. Closer supervision limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a barometer of nursing care . UTI's are often the result of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this datapoint could also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term patients that are given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such drugs aren't medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents suffering from dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients taking antianxiety drugs.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percent of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This indicates the percent of patients that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess patient well-being during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better