Golden Gate Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

Golden Gate Rehabilitation & Health Care Center is in the densely populated metropolitan area of Staten Island, New York which has a population of 468,730 people. We gave this nursing home a B- overall, which is a decent score. This is comparable with the city grade in Staten Island, which is a B. Even in a city with 10 nursing homes, this facility turns out to be a sound choice. One of the major highlights of this facility's profile is its stellar inspection grade, which you can find in the next section.

To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this facility a grade of A+ for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded it a strong long-term care grade. In fact, we gave this nursing home a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.80526 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't take any chances. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.53 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This nursing home's next best category was short-term care. We gave it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this category. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most important for those requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 50.1 percent of its residents returning home.

The next category we rated was nursing. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is clearly a major disappointment. Nursing grades are based largely on levels of nurse staffing. With only 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. On top of receiving below average scores for total nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and found this facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.