Golden Years Nursing Center

To go along with its favorable overall score, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies end up being relatively minor. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home performed well in the area of long-term care. In fact, we gave it a score of A- for that area, which turns out to be one of our higher grades. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 88.47584 percent of its residents, which is a few points below what we expected. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. There are a host of datapoints included in this category. Many of these factors reflect staffing levels. This place averages just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is a very low figure. Lastly, although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared well in this metric.

Turning to our fourth area, this nursing home was awarded a grade of C for short-term care, which is generally a respectable grade. Our short-term care scores are crucial for individuals seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.