Golden Living Center-Golden Rule

Golden Living Center-Golden Rule is located in Richmond, Indiana. The city has 46,875 people. With an overall score of D, this is a lower end facility. Based on our assessment, we'd struggle to recommend this place. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, feel free to continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Our inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a bunch of deficiencies flagged. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's short-term care grade ended up being one of its more favorable features. The facility was awarded a grade of C in this area. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The tricky part is determining what bearing this had on quality of care. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the nation in this area with 49.5 percent of its patients returning home. This is a better rate than most facilities.

Another concern is the F this facility was given in the category of long-term care. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. After we finished looking at the volume of care provided by nurses, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 96.42857 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility also was not as bad as we expected at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Although it had 1.78 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not bad due to it having some more complicated patients.

The next area we assessed was nursing. Sadly, it received an F for this category, which is a very poor grade. Nursing ratings are mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 3.1 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics hurt this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.