Golfview Healthcare Center

Golfview Healthcare Center is a nursing home located in Saint Petersburg, Florida which has 341,043 people. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of B. A score in this range requires quality marks in most areas. Even in a city offering 27 other nursing homes, this facility should be a sound option. This facility is stronger in some categories than others, but it did not have any poor grades in any of our major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not 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 this industry.

Another one of this facility's above average category scores came in the category of short-term care. We gave them one of our more positive grades in that category, with a score of B. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 33.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

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. We assessed the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with residents, in computing our grade in this area. This particular nursing home provided 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which was among the highest totals we found. Finally, we also looked at nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive measures of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The next area we graded is long-term care. This facility was awarded a grade of C in the category. In a long-term care setting, the 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 residents. On top of looking at the above average volume of care provided by aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were pleased by the nursing home's vaccination data. By way of example, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is an impressive total. Finally, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.5 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure was less favorable than its other scores in the long-term care area.