Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center

Nursing Home

Updated Jun 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Golden Empire Nursing & Rehab Center's website

121 Dorsey Drive,
Grass Valley CA 95945

(530) 273-1316

84.05% estimated occupancy ¹

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.

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

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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