Golden Age Nursing Home

In addition to being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also fared well in the area of long-term care, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Facilities that do well in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients out of the hospital. The last datapoint we assessed is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 1.77 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is middle of the pack in this area.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A. In determining our nursing scores, we factor in both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of turning a patient more frequently.

In addition, this nursing home also received excellent government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best grades in that category, with a score of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The next category we assessed was short-term care. This facility was awarded a very good nursing grade this year, with a B. Although this was not quite as good as many of its other scores, this is still one of our more impressive grades for that category. Our short-term care ratings are based on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.