Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare is a large nursing home located in Harrisonville, Missouri. With an A- overall grade, we ranked this facility in the top quarter of all nursing homes in the United States. Based on our ratings, you can not go wrong here. This place also received consistently good ratings in all four of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.
Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare
- Nursing Home
- 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
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Physical Therapy
- Optometry
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home excelled in our shot-term care category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we size up a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This area is often a fair assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that category, we gave this facility an A-. Our nursing score focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of licensure of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
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Long-term Care Quality
Turning to the next category, this nursing home also earned a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 94.660194 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia is too frequently a dangerous health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a facility does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Facility Inspections
Finishing off its impressive profile, this nursing home also performed a high level in inspections. It earned a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with a B+. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, this nursing home received a category L deficiency, which was not what we expected based on its inspection grade. This category indicates CMS discovered a widespread deficiency putting resident health or safety in imminent danger. In spite of this major red flag, other aspects of this facility's inspection report gave us some hope.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 9.28% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 3.89% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often associated with lower quality nursing care. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 3.39% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better hygiene protocols limits the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 20.47% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for several conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 24.32% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 4.19% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who are demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 88.53% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient safety.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 14.79% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and bathing.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 14.68% Percentage of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is critical to patients mental and physical well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 1.7 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 14.68 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 11.55 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Golden Years Center for Rehab and Healthcare, 72.81% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some believe that this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Cass Regional Medical CenterCritical Access Hospitals 1.33 miles away2800 E Rock Haven Road Harrisonville Missouri 64701Government - Local(816) 380-5888
- Lee's Summit Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 16.18 miles away2100 Se Blue Parkway Lees Summit Missouri 64063Proprietary(816) 282-5000
- Saint Luke's East HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.83 miles away100 N E Saint Luke's Boulevard Lees Summit Missouri 64086Voluntary non-profit - Private(816) 347-5000
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc Dialysis Services of Harrisonville1.29 miles away2820 East Rock Haven Road Suite 160 Harrisonville Missouri 64701Dialysis Stations: 9 (816) 884-2582
- Isd - Harrisonville Renal Center1.42 miles away308 Galaxie Avenue Harrisonville Missouri 64701Dialysis Stations: 12 (816) 380-2004
- Dialysis Clinics, Inc - Belton13.01 miles away17045 S 71 Hwy Belton Missouri 64012Dialysis Stations: 12 (816) 322-4034
- Lee's Summit Dialysis16.22 miles away1831 Se Blue Parkway Lees Summit Missouri 64063Dialysis Stations: 12 (816) 554-1950
- Grandview Dialysis17.06 miles away13812 S 71 Hwy Grandview Missouri 64030Dialysis Stations: 12 (816) 763-1179
- Dialysis Clinics, Inc - Lees Summit17.27 miles away219 Nw Executive Way Lees Summit Missouri 64063Dialysis Stations: 12 (816) 554-2711
- Isd - Lee's Summit Renal Center18.94 miles away100 Ne Missouri Rd Suite 100 Lees Summit Missouri 64086CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (816) 524-3312