Golden Living Center-Muncie

Golden Living Center-Muncie is a senior living facility located in Muncie, Indiana, a city with 93,768 people. With an overall score of D, this is a subpar nursing home. Based on our ratings, this nursing home may not be the best fit for most prospective residents. The only positive thing we can really say about this nursing home is that it did not receive any F's in in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it an A- for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the facility's overall score. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically best to avoid facilities that had a long list of severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that CMS didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facilities second best category was long-term care. We awarded it a C in this area. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this area. In calculating these long-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's personal care services. One of the statistics we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 96.231155 percent of its residents. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.56 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less favorable than its other scores in this category.

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. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the number of hours spent with residents. This facility provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this place got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this statistic. This is often a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as by having a protocol of moving patients more frequently.

The last area we rated was short-term care, which is a low point for this facility. We gave this nursing home a grade of just D in short-term care. Our short-term care scores are arguably most meaningful for residents needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually utilizes more skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. With a grade this poor for this category, we were not shocked to find this facility was below average in many staffing figures we assess. The nursing home provided far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility did not fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 47 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.