Golden Oaks Village

This nursing home's short-term care rating is more impressive than its overall grade. It received one of our better scores in that category with a B+. In determining our short-term care grades, we size up a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This rating is often a solid assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

This nursing home also received a favorable long-term care grade. In fact, we awarded them a B+ in this area, which happens to be one of our more favorable scores. Long-term care ratings of this caliber generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 58.928574 percent of its residents. This is somewhat lower than we anticipated. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for nursing hours per resident, it excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it fared remarkably well in this subcategory. This can be a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning patients even once per day.

Moving on the final category of inspections, this ended up being this facility's weakest link. Inspection scores are based on a facility's recent inspection reports. We gave this nursing home a D in this category, which is not a very good grade. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. We recommend you pay close attention to the severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility had one category J or K deficiency, which are among the worst deficiencies. Finally, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received large government fines of more than $100,000. This generally indicates that a poor performance has been an issue for several years.