Golden Legacy Care Center

In addition to receiving a poor overall score, we also gave this facility poor grades across the board in our categories. It received a D for its short-term care rating, which was its highest category. Our short-term care scores are crucial for prospective residents in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to learn that this nursing home is well below average in terms of the number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the figures we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected here. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. Our nursing rating is primarily based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provided a meager 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

We wanted to draw your attention to this place's inspection rating where it received an F. This generally means we found some red flags on its government inspection reports. For nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was hit with 10 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we would like to point out that this facility received significant government fines of over $100,000. This generally suggests that a nursing home's bad performance spanned multiple years.

The next category we rated was long-term care. This nursing home was given a very poor grade of F in this category. If you are seeking services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 99.79466 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.