Golden Age - Inman

To pair with its strong overall grade, we gave this place an A+ for the area of inspections. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This nursing home is also above average in the category of short-term care, where it was awarded a grade of B. It outpaced most facilities in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility submitted information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. When calculating our nursing grades, we look at both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided just 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this statistic. This is typically an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a resident at least once a day.

Our next category is long-term care, in which we awarded this facility a B- in this category. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for patients in need of more traditional services related to personal care. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were a bit worried that this facility gave the vaccine to a relatively low 67.22689 percent of its patients. Nevertheless, this place excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.