Golden Living Center-Richmond

Golden Living Center-Richmond is one of seven facilities located in Richmond, Indiana. This nursing home received an overall rating of B-. As As it turns out, this turned out to be the top three facilities in Richmond. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. The best part of this place's profile was its exemplary inspection rating. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

While this nursing home's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection scores are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

This nursing home also was given a positive grade in our short-term care category. We awarded this facility an above average grade of B in that area. In our short-term care assessment, we endeavor to forge a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be a real strength for this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country in this area with 56.6 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most nursing homes.

Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of B-, which is a decent grade. In calculating our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. This nursing home performed admirably in this datapoint. Avoiding major falls is generally an indicator that a facility has quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

Switching gears to our next category, we awarded this nursing home a D in long-term care. This was the nursing home's least impressive category rating. Naturally, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. Facilities that don't score well in this category often don't provide as much nursing care and also may be lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated 83.48214 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is quite a few points below what we expected. We were also disappointed with the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this place had 2.86 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is nearly double the national average.