Golden Living Center-Indianapolis

Golden Living Center-Indianapolis is an average-sized nursing home located in Indianapolis, Indiana. With a really poor overall grade of F, this facility isn't high on our list. If you aren't happy with this nursing home, you should be able to find another option in Indianapolis, as the city has more than 25 nursing homes. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.

Although we graded this nursing home incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a relatively impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our better scores in that area with a B. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid places with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. Our nursing rating is largely based on the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home averaged just 2.9 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is significantly below the national average. To pair with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this place had poor scores in many of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients having falls which led to major injury. This facility was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.

Additionally, we gave this facility a rock-bottom F in the category of short-term care. In forming these short-term care grades, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to devise a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 34.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The next category we analyzed was long-term care. It received an F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel score. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 89.147285 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit less than what we expected. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at limiting hospitalizations. While it had 3.53 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score wasn't bad since it had more complex patients. This was its best score in this category