Golfcrest Healthcare Center

On top of performing well in its overall score, this nursing home earned even higher grades in the area of long-term care. In fact, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A-. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 82.53012 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we gave this facility a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are based on several pieces of information located in the a nursing home's government inspections. Nursing homes that score well in this area tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors 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 facility received an impressive short-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B+. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other types of therapists. This rating is often a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next area we looked at is nursing. We awarded this facility one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B. This nursing home ended up being strong in each category we looked at. We looked at the licensure of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the state 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 employing a system of turning patients more often.