Golden Oaks Village

Although we gave this nursing home a poor overall grade, we actually gave it a fairly respectable grade in the area of nursing, where it received a B-. This was at least better than its other category grades. Our nursing rating consists of several subcategories, many of which are based on nursing hours. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared to most other nursing homes. Finally, although this nursing home got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed remarkably well in this area.

This nursing home's short-term care score turns out to be one of its higher features. The facility was awarded a grade of B- in this area. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To offer high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other licensed professionals. We found that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 6.3 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

This nursing home was awarded its third most favorable category grade in the category of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this category, which is a respectable score. In crafting these long-term care scores, we assess the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 87.30159 percent of its patients. This is significantly lower than what we expected. Nevertheless, this nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

In the final category of inspections, this ended up being this nursing home's weakest link. Inspection scores are based on a nursing home's recent inspections. We gave this facility a D in this category, which is not a very good grade. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. We would scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility had one category J or K deficiency, which are among the worst deficiencies. We are also concerned by the fact that this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.