Golden Living Center - Galt

Golden Living Center - Galt is an average-sized nursing home located in Galt, California. With an overall rating of C, this is likely a middle of the road nursing home. You could definitely do worse than this nursing home. We were also pleased to discover that this place was consistent in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about its category grades is available below.

This facility earned a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its nearly flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an A- in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facilities next best area is short-term care. We gave it a B- in this area. This is basically a slightly below average score in this area. Our short-term care grades are likely more important for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. This place performed better than most nursing homes in this metric with 51 percent of its residents returning home.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C, which is a decent grade. Our nursing rating consists of many datapoints, but the primary consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Moving on to our last category, this facility received a respectable long-term care grade of C. Our long-term care scores are more important for people in need of more traditional assistance associated with personal care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 98.784195 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a substantially lower hospitalization rate than the average nursing home.