GOLDEN AGE NURSING HOME (DENHAM SPRINGS, LA) Detailed Nursing Home Profile

Staff Information

Number of Registered Nurses Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.470
State:	0.408

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

This Nursing Home:	0.950
State:	0.918

Total Number of Licensed Staff Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	1.420
State:	1.326

Number of ,Certified Nurse Assistant Hours Per Resident Per Day

This Nursing Home:	0.030
State:	0.070

Number Therapy Hours Per Resident Per Day

Here:	0.030
State:	0.071

Quality Measures

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

Here:	28.6%
State:	20.1%

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

This Nursing Home:	13.2%
Louisiana:	10.5%

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

Here:	10.3%
Louisiana:	9.2%

Percent of long-stay residents who lose too much weight

This Nursing Home:	8.3%
Louisiana:	7.8%

Percent of long-stay low-risk residents who lose control of their bowels or bladder

This Nursing Home:	28.6%
State:	34.2%

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

This Nursing Home:	2.1%
State:	3.9%

Percent of long-stay residents with a urinary tract infection

Here:	16.0%
State:	7.4%

Percent of long-stay residents who have depressive symptoms

This Nursing Home:	0.7%
State:	4.0%

Percent of long-stay residents who were physically restrained

This Nursing Home:	13.4%
State:	4.3%

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

Here:	7.4%
State:	3.8%

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

Here:	100.0%
Louisiana:	95.1%

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

Here:	100.0%
Louisiana:	93.1%

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

Here:	20.0%
State:	21.0%

Percent of short-stay residents with Pressure ulcers that are new or worsened

Here:	2.9%
Louisiana:	1.9%

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

This Nursing Home:	98.1%
Louisiana:	81.8%

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

This Nursing Home:	93.0%
Louisiana:	79.9%

Percent of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication

This Nursing Home:	12.5%
Louisiana:	3.7%

Percent of long-stay residents who received an antipsychotic medication

Here:	43.6%
State:	29.5%

Complaint Deficiency

Proper medical gas storage and administration areas
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Restrictions on the use of flammable curtains
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Keep each resident free from physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that doctors see a resident's plan of care at every visit and make notes about progress and orders in writing
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
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
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
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: Some
Signs that state that exit doors are to be kept closed
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Rooms that can be unlocked from inside without a key
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Proper backup exit lighting
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
A properly located automatic smoke detector system in all hallways
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Try to resolve each resident's complaints quickly
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Allow residents to easily view the results of the nursing home's most recent survey
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Let residents talk to and get information from agencies acting on their behalf
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Provide access to a telephone for resident to use in private
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Determine if it is safe for the resident to self-administer drugs
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Develop policies that prevent mistreatment, neglect, or abuse of residents or theft of resident property
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
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
Conduct initial and periodic assessments of each resident's functional capacity
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure each resident receives an accurate assessment by a qualified health professional
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
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
Make sure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality
- 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: Few
Provide necessary care and services to maintain the highest well being of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Assist those residents who need total help with eating/drinking, grooming and personal and oral hygiene
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Give residents proper treatment to prevent new bed (pressure) sores or heal existing bed sores
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, and receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder function
- 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: Some
Make sure that each resident gets a nutritional and well balanced diet, unless it is not possible to do so
- Harm: Immediate jeopardy to resident health or safety
- 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
Make sure that special or therapeutic diets are ordered by the attending doctor
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Maintain drug records and properly mark/label drugs and other similar products according to accepted professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Have enough backup water supply for essential areas of the nursing home
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Many
Be administered in an acceptable way that maintains the well-being of each resident
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Make sure that nurse aides show they have the skills and techniques to be able to care for residents' needs
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Keep accurate, complete and organized clinical records on each resident that meet professional standards
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Corridor and hallway doors that block smoke
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
An approved automatic sprinkler system connected to the fire alarm system
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Few
Try to resolve each resident's complaints quickly
- 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
Store, cook, and serve food in a safe and clean way
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Have a program that investigates, controls and keeps infection from spreading
- 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
Make sure that each resident who enters the nursing home without a catheter is not given a catheter, and receive proper services to prevent urinary tract infections and restore normal bladder function
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some
Hire sufficient dietary support personnel
- Harm: Minimal harm or potential for actual harm
- Scope: Some

GOLDEN AGE NURSING HOME - DENHAM SPRINGS, LA

Staff Information

Quality Measures

Complaint Deficiency

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