Golden Years Nursing Home

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.