Golden Estates Rehabilitation Center

While this nursing home earned a decent overall grade, its inspections rating is notably better than its overall grade. Due to a strong inspection report this year, it earned one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. 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. Based on this, we had a generally positive view of this facility's recent inspections.

This nursing home also was given a favorable grade in our long-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B in that category. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with closer supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. One of the criteria we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 99.46809 percent of its patients. Vaccination is a reliable method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the senior population. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

We also gave this facility a middle of the road grade in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a B-. With our short-term care score, we seek to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. We found that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we assessed. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The final statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

The final area we rated was nursing, which turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is clearly very disappointing. In computing our nursing scores, we look at both nursing hours and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home averaged only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.