Golden LivingCenter - Vanceburg sits at 58 Eastham Street in Vanceburg, Kentucky, and you'll find it offers skilled nursing care as its main service, but they've also got assisted living, rehabilitation, memory care for Alzheimer's or dementia, and some independent living options, too, and the whole place has 94 beds with about 82 residents and does take both Medicare and Medicaid since it's certified under both programs. Folks here can get daily help with bathing, dressing, medication, and meals, plus there's a 24-hour call system and round-the-clock supervision, so if someone needs assistance at night, someone's there. You get things like three homemade meals each day that can be changed for diets like diabetes, alongside snacks and special menus when the doctor says so. Their memory care section is a secured area to keep residents safe from wandering, they run special activities made for memory support, and they've got alarms and special staff training for safety. Staff includes RNs, LPNs, and CNAs, with about 0.68 RN hours per resident, 0.39 LPN hours, and 2.25 CNA hours, so there are trained people on hand for personal care or emergencies, with help for things like pain management, dialysis, wound care, and after a stroke or for heart issues. There's a range of therapies on-site, like occupational therapy, speech therapy, and help with vision or hearing care, plus support for families and even pet visits for small animals.
Rooms come furnished as studios, and each has private bathrooms, cable TV, telephone, Wi-Fi, and air-conditioning, so residents have privacy and comfort. You'll see gardens outside, and inside, there's a beauty salon, a fitness room, a small library, a computer center, and a gaming room, with reading rooms, movie nights, music and craft programs, and both resident-run and community-led activities for folks to keep busy. They set up daily schedules, do planned outings for shopping or day trips, and they'll arrange all sorts of non-medical and medical transportation when someone needs it. Religious, social, and spiritual activities show up in the schedule, and there's a dining hall for meals, along with a smaller market and snacks available. The facility is fully sprinklered for safety, is not located inside a hospital, and operates as a for-profit place under Purple Door, LLC, with family and resident councils to let people speak up about daily life. Cleaning and laundry are all handled for you, so no one has to worry about those chores.
There's a focus on both preventing mistreatment and keeping up staff quality, backed by hiring rules and regular inspections, though in the most recent reports they've had four deficiencies and paid a fine totaling $231,300-not uncommon for large care centers. Golden LivingCenter - Vanceburg isn't a part of a continuing care retirement community or a special focus facility, and it doesn't use the Quality Indicator Survey, but it has health inspection, nurse staffing, and quality measure data available for transparency. The occupancy rate tends to hover near 87 percent, and right now there are 94 certified beds in use. Outpatient rehab is available, with exercise and fitness programs, and there's always something going on because they aim to keep residents comfortable, active, and as independent as they're able.
