Golden Oaks Village

While we gave this facility a terrible overall score, it did receive a somewhat better grade in the area of long-term care. We gave it a B- in that category. This is certainly better than its other scores. In determining our long-term care grades, we scrutinize the personal care received by a facility's patients. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility vaccinated just 28.085108 percent of its residents for pneumonia. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

We awarded this nursing home a C for our inspections rating. This score is more respectable than the nursing home's overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being quite minor. Surprisingly, this place had a category J through K deficiency, which are some of the worst possible categories of deficiencies. This often means CMS uncovered a deficiency which places patient health or safety in imminent jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This facility's third highest category was its short-term care score, where it was given a C. Our short-term care scores are presumably most critical for individuals in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.

The final area we graded was nursing. It received a lowly F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. When calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses are seeing patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this place had really poor scores in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients having falls leading to serious injury. This nursing home was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is alarming in light of the fact that so many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing score.