Golden Hill Rehab Pavilion

While we did not rate this facility favorably overall, we want to point out its relatively solid inspections in recent years. We gave it a respectable grade of B+ in this area, which is much better than its overall grade. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home was given its next highest category grade in the area of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of C in this area, which is a respectable score. Long-term care grades focus on a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the highly skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 86.90808 percent of its residents. This is several points below what we were hoping for. Nevertheless, this facility excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.05 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of C for that category, which is not a bad score. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This facility provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we were hoping for. Finally, despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

Turning to our final area, we gave this facility a grade of D for short-term care. This is the facility's worst category rating. Short-term care scores are important for residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing. This includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.5 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below the national average.