Golden Years Nursing Home
7348 North West Street, Falcon NC 28342 · (910) 980-1271 · 79.13% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Golden Years Nursing Home is a facility located in Falcon, North Carolina, a city with a population of 298 people. Our scoring system was not very kind to this nursing home, as we gave it an overall score of F. This nursing home does not seem to have any redeeming qualities. This place's only redeeming quality is its inspection score, which you can find more information on below.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 58 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it earned a very impressive inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our best grades in that category with an A+. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid places that have too many severe deficiencies. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
We awarded this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care rating and that actually wound up as its next highest score. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, this facility vaccinated a relatively low 37.64045 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Short-term Care Quality
In our next category, we gave this nursing home an F in the category of short-term care. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. With its score in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this place was well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. The final item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 38.9 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
The last area we looked at is nursing. This nursing home received an abysmal grade of F in that category. The nursing score is based on a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spend with patients. This place offered a meager 2.5 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is an alarmingly low total. On top of rating below average in nursing hours per resident, this facility also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in both of these statistics. This is a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These statistics pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating quite a bit.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Golden Years Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better