Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center is in Grass Valley, California. This city has a population of 44,940 people. This is a strong nursing home with a grade of B+ overall. We were pleased to find out that many of the other nursing homes in Grass Valley received similar scores. In our view, this facility is a solid choice for most people. This nursing home was stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of our major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.
Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Partnership
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to earning a strong overall grade, this facility fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that area, which is one of our highest grades. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
In addition, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we gave them one of our more favorable scores in that area, with a score of B+. In forming our short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to devise a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. The last item we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that 6.9 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to another strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our more positive grades in our long-term care category as well, with a grade of B. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to our final area, this nursing home was given a respectable nursing grade. Even though this wasn't quite as good as a few of its other grades, this is still nothing to be ashamed of. There are many criteria included in this grade. Many of these criteria reflect levels of nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, although this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of our quality-based measures. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this statistic.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 7.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 1.67% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 1.21% of Patients had UTIs
This metric measures the percent of long-term residents which sustained urinary tract infections. UTI's could be an indicator of worse hygiene protocols. However, this datapoint may be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 10.06% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. These drugs are used for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 13.91% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term patients who were given antianxiety medication. These drugs are typically prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 4.33% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who are showing depressive symptoms. Some argue this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 95.72% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 8.37% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as dressing and continence. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 14.05% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 1.49 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 14.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 9.85 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center, 79.63% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Grass Valley, CA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Grass Valley, California has 3 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Sierra Nevada Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.2 miles away155 Glasson Way Grass Valley California 95945Voluntary non-profit - Other(530) 274-6000
Nearby Dialysis
- Grass Valley Dialysis Center0.96 miles away36o Crown Point Circle, Suite 210 Grass Valley California 95945CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 18 (530) 477-0734