Golden View Health Care Center is located in Meredith, New Hampshire. The city has a population of 6,219 people. This facility is ranked among the most elite nursing homes we assessed. A score of this caliber requires excellent marks across the board. We were so impressed with this nursing home that we ranked it as one of the top 25 facilities in New Hampshire. As you will see below, this place performed equally well in our category grades. We gave it a straight A report card!
Golden View Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Meal Delivery
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. It doesn't appear that we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This facility also received a fine short-term care grade. In fact, this turned out to be its second strongest category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. In the area of short-term care, we try to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 6 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
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Nurse Quality
To complement its strong performance in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We scrutinized the levels of nurses at the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place New Hampshire in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving patients even once per day.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to the fourth category, this facility also excelled in our long-term care category. We awarded it a grade of A- for this category. This wrapped up a straight A report card. In a long-term care environment, the primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 56.842106 percent of its patients, which is somewhat lower than we anticipated. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Golden View Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Golden View Health Care Center, 6.17% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Golden View Health Care Center, 5.16% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered to be a measure of nursing care . Falls are routinely the result of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Golden View Health Care Center, 2.81% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term residents that sustained a UTI. UTI's may be a sign of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric can be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Golden View Health Care Center, 17.01% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This figure gauges the percentage of long-term patients taking antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used appropriately. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Golden View Health Care Center, 16.61% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term residents receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Golden View Health Care Center, 5.77% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Golden View Health Care Center, 95.49% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Golden View Health Care Center, 18.58% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as moving around and continence. Many argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Golden View Health Care Center, 22.17% Percentage of Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents who retained mobility levels.
Hospitalizations
In Golden View Health Care Center, 1.27 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Golden View Health Care Center, 22.17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Golden View Health Care Center, 12.13 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Golden View Health Care Center, 78.43% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients that saw functional improvements.
Nearby Hospitals
- Lakes Region General HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.41 miles away80 Highland St Laconia New Hampshire 03246Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 524-3211
- Speare Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 12.18 miles away16 Hospital Road Plymouth New Hampshire 03264Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 536-1120
- Franklin Regional HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 15.46 miles away15 Aiken Avenue Franklin New Hampshire 03235Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 934-2060
- Huggins HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 15.55 miles away240 South Main Street Wolfeboro New Hampshire 03894Voluntary non-profit - Private(603) 569-7500
Nearby Dialysis
- Central New Hampshire Kidney Center8.35 miles away87 Spring Street Laconia New Hampshire 03246Dialysis Stations: 21 (603) 524-8796