Golfview Healthcare Center

On top of faring well overall, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. The nursing grade is based on a handful of subcategories, but the paramount consideration is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.5 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 facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to our next area, this facility also received a score of B+ for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average score in this category. In the area of short-term care, we try to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The next category we rated is long-term care. This nursing home received a better than average long-term care grade this year, with a grade of B-. Although this is not quite as dominant as several of its other grades, this is nevertheless a decent grade for that area. Our long-term care grade focuses on a nursing home's assistance with daily living rather than the skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinates 98.58156 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.