GOLDEN LIVING CENTER-LEXINGTON (LEXINGTON, MA) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.750
State:	0.845

Number of Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.760
State:	0.817

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	1.500
State:	1.661

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.080
State:	0.100

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.080
State:	0.101

Quality Measures

Percent of long-stay residents whose need for help with daily activities has increased

This Nursing Home:	20.9%
Massachusetts:	13.3%

Percent of long-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

This Nursing Home:	2.0%
State:	7.7%

Percent of long-stay high-risk residents with pressure ulcers

Here:	5.5%
Massachusetts:	5.6%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

This Nursing Home:	8.1%
State:	6.5%

Percent of long-stay residents who have had a catheter inserted and left in their bladder

Here:	1.4%
State:	3.1%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

Here:	6.5%
Massachusetts:	7.0%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

This Nursing Home:	2.5%
Massachusetts:	5.2%

Percent of long-stay residents who were physically restrained

Here:	2.4%
State:	2.4%

Percent of long-stay residents experiencing one or more falls with major injury

This Nursing Home:	5.6%
Massachusetts:	3.0%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

This Nursing Home:	93.6%
State:	96.5%

Percent of long-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

Here:	95.2%
Massachusetts:	96.8%

Percent of short-stay residents who self-report moderate to severe pain

Here:	31.3%
Massachusetts:	21.6%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the seasonal influenza vaccine

Here:	85.2%
State:	90.2%

Percent of short-stay residents assessed and given, appropriately, the pneumococcal vaccine

This Nursing Home:	46.8%
State:	87.7%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

This Nursing Home:	31.9%
Massachusetts:	25.2%

Complaint Deficiency

Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide doctors orders for the resident's immediate care, at the time the resident was admitted
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly working alarms on sprinkler valves
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Properly hold, secure and manage each resident's personal money which is deposited with the nursing home
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide activities to meet the interests and needs of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Develop a complete care plan that meets all of a resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Properly care for residents needing special services, including: injections, colostomy, ureostomy, ileostomy, tracheostomy care, tracheal suctioning, respiratory care, foot care, and prostheses
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure menus meet the resident's nutritional needs and that there is a prepared menu by which nutritious meals have been planned for the resident and followed
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Prepare food that is nutritional, appetizing, tasty, attractive, well-cooked, and at the right temperature
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure that special or therapeutic diets are ordered by the attending doctor
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide special eating equipment and utensils for each resident who needs them
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Have a detailed, written plan for disasters and emergencies, such as fire, severe weather, and missing residents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
1) Hire only people with no legal history of abusing, neglecting or mistreating residents; or 2) report and investigate any acts or reports of abuse, neglect or mistreatment of residents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that the nursing home area is free from accident hazards and risks and provides supervision to prevent avoidable accidents
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure menus meet the resident's nutritional needs and that there is a prepared menu by which nutritious meals have been planned for the resident and followed
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Record of quarterly fire drills for each shift under varying conditions
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Weekly inspections and monthly testing of generators
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Properly installed electrical wiring and equipment
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Provide a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide care by qualified persons according to each resident's written plan of care
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- Scope: Few
Keep the rate of medication errors (wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong time) to less than 5%
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure menus meet the resident's nutritional needs and that there is a prepared menu by which nutritious meals have been planned for the resident and followed
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Construction that can resist fire for one hour or an approved fire extinguishing system
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many
Automatic sprinkler systems that have been maintained in working order
- Harm: Potential for minimal harm
- Scope: Many

GOLDEN LIVING CENTER-LEXINGTON - LEXINGTON, MA

Staff Information

Quality Measures

Complaint Deficiency

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