Golden Palms Retirement & Health Center
2101 Treasure Hills Blvd, Harlingen TX 78550 · (956) 430-3100 · 75% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Golden Palms Retirement & Health Center is located in Harlingen, Texas. This city has a total of 87,263 people. This is a very respectable nursing home. We gave it an overall grade of B, which is a very solid rating. As a matter of fact, this turned out to be better than most of the nursing homes in Harlingen. Fortunately, this place did not have any weak links in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 60 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To pair with its strong overall performance, we gave this place an A- for the area of inspections. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.
Short-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a score of A- for our short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is more often than not a solid measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more than 50% more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any facility in the country in this area with 76.9 percent of its patients returning home. Most facilities are below 50 percent in this statistic.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility was given its next highest category score in the category of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a grade of B- in this area, which is a decent grade. Our long-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's amount of nursing care. This includes a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine medical services. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 95.12195 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the majority of nursing homes. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to the last area, this facility was awarded a decent nursing score of B-. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this statistic. This is usually an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning a patient more frequently.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Golden Palms Retirement & Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients that have had a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are often linked to lower quality nursing care. Better nursing care can limit the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Closer supervision can minimize the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. We want to point out that this metric is sometimes skewed by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to make sure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better