Golden Gate Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

    191 Bradley Avenue, Staten Island, NY, 10314
    2.6 · 18 reviews
    • Skilled nursing
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    1.0

    Severely understaffed, neglectful, unsafe facility

    I placed a loved one here and it was a nightmare. The place is severely understaffed - calls go unanswered, aides are overworked or absent, and residents are regularly neglected (urine-soaked diapers left for hours, missed meds/bloodwork, ignored UTIs). The building is dingy and smells, rooms and bathrooms need modernization, and meals/activities are poor. Administration is rude and unapproachable; front desk often empty. A few nurses, aides and the rehab/therapy staff were kind and competent, but overall it felt unsafe and profit-driven. I regret choosing this facility and would not recommend it.

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    2.61 · 18 reviews

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      2.4
    • Staff

      2.7
    • Meals

      1.5
    • Amenities

      1.8
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Some aides and CNAs described as caring and pleasant
    • Certain nurses and RNs praised as excellent and skilled
    • Social worker described as helpful and supportive
    • OT/PT and rehabilitation staff described as caring and collaborative
    • Rehab floor noted as a comparatively decent area
    • Cheerful and encouraging transporters
    • Facility admitted residents other homes would not
    • Some staff are friendly, helpful, and informative
    • Recreation programs available (bingo, Zumba mentioned)
    • Friendly meal staff mentioned in some reviews
    • Residents visibly happier in some cases (smiles noted)
    • Reported attentive diabetes care in some accounts
    • Some reviewers recommend the facility for rehabilitation

    Cons

    • Facility described as dirty, dingy, and in need of upgrade
    • Strong and pervasive foul odors in hallways and rooms
    • Residents reportedly left in urine-soaked diapers/underpants for hours
    • Allegations of feces-filled or unclean conditions
    • Unaddressed wounds and ulcers reported
    • Poor dementia care and inappropriate medications for dementia
    • Medication errors (wrong pills found, missed bloodwork, antibiotic errors)
    • UTIs ignored or not promptly treated
    • Overmedication and unsafe prescribing alleged
    • Understaffing and skeleton crew, especially evenings and weekends
    • Long response times to call buzzer; calls unanswered
    • Staff frequently absent from nurse's station or front desk
    • Aides overworked, taking breaks together and leaving floors uncovered
    • Administrative staff characterized as rude, unapproachable, or profit-driven
    • Poor communication between staff, families, and administration
    • Management perceived as caring only about money
    • Rooms and bathrooms poorly maintained (stains, smeared walls, no in-room showers)
    • Four residents sharing one bathroom in at least one report
    • Inadequate hygiene practices (greasy hair, long nails, poor grooming)
    • Cleaning frequency inadequate; dirt behind beds and dressers
    • Activities described as sparse or 'ridiculous' by some reviewers
    • Meals described as horrible or disgusting by several reviewers
    • Inconsistent quality of care across units (rehab floor better)
    • Instances of neglect and substandard end-of-life experiences
    • Poor coordination of medical care and supervisors seen as ineffective

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across the review summaries is mixed but leans strongly negative, with recurrent and serious concerns about cleanliness, basic hygiene, staffing levels, and management responsiveness. Many reviewers describe the facility as dirty, dingy, and smelling of urine; specific reports include urine-soaked undergarments left on residents for hours, fecal contamination, unaddressed ulcers, and pervasive odors in hallways and rooms. Multiple reviewers note visible filth such as dirt behind beds and dressers, smeared walls, water stains on ceilings, and a general gloomy atmosphere. Cleanliness and maintenance problems appear widespread and are a dominant theme.

    Care quality presents a contradictory picture: a number of frontline caregivers—some CNAs, RNs, OT/PT staff, transporters, and a social worker—are singled out for being kind, attentive, collaborative, and skilled, particularly on the rehabilitation floor. Several reviewers explicitly praise rehab staff, therapy teams, and certain nurses as excellent and caring, and some families reported good diabetes care and positive rehab outcomes. However, an even larger set of comments describes serious lapses in clinical care: missed bloodwork, antibiotic errors, medication mistakes (wrong pills found on the floor), overmedication, and at least one allegation of a doctor prescribing an inappropriate or dangerous drug for dementia. These clinical errors, combined with reports of ignored UTIs and unaddressed wounds, raise significant safety and medical oversight concerns.

    Staffing and responsiveness are recurring problem areas. Many reviewers describe the facility as severely understaffed or short-handed, especially after day shift, at night, and on weekends. Accounts include nurse stations and front desks frequently empty, calls and buzzers unanswered for long periods (up to an hour in one report), and aides on breaks leaving floors unattended. This understaffing is tied directly to lapses in basic care—delayed assistance, infrequent showering, inadequate toileting, prolonged soiling, and delayed medication administration. Reviewers commonly characterize aides as overworked and spread too thin, which some note produces both burnout and inconsistent resident attention.

    Management, communication, and administrative culture are also major themes. Numerous reviewers portray administration as unapproachable, aloof, or primarily profit-driven, with complaints that administrators appear uninterested in families' concerns. Communication breakdowns between clinical teams, families, and administration are repeatedly mentioned. Positive exceptions exist (someone described the social worker and some informative staff), but the overall pattern is one of poor transparency and ineffective supervision. A few reviewers explicitly call supervisors 'useless' or incompetent in addressing serious incidents.

    Dining and activities receive mixed feedback but skew negative. Several reviewers describe meals as horrible or disgusting; others call food merely 'OK' and praise friendly meal staff. Recreational programming is present—bingo and Zumba are cited—and some residents appear engaged and happy in activities. Nevertheless, many families feel activities are insufficient or not meaningful, especially for residents with dementia, who reviewers say are not well served by the available programming.

    A notable pattern is the variability of experience by unit and by staff member. The rehabilitation floor and therapy teams receive consistently more favorable comments, and some individual aides, nurses, and support staff are praised for compassion and competence. In contrast, other units—particularly long-term care or dementia care areas—are repeatedly criticized for neglect, poor hygiene, and inadequate supervision. This unevenness suggests that quality of care is heavily dependent on which staff are on duty and which unit a resident is placed in.

    In sum, while there are pockets of good care (especially in rehab and from specific staff members), the reviews collectively raise serious red flags about sanitation, basic hygiene, clinical safety (medication and infection management), staffing adequacy, and administrative responsiveness. The most frequent and significant concerns—residents left in soiled garments, missed or incorrect medications, understaffing leading to long response times, and pervasive cleanliness issues—are not minor complaints and warrant careful consideration by families and oversight bodies. The mixed positives (caring frontline staff and competent rehab services) do not fully counterbalance the systemic and recurring negatives reported by many reviewers.

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    About Golden Gate Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

    Golden Gate Rehabilitation & Health Care Center sits at 191 Bradley Ave in Staten Island, NY, and focuses on both rehabilitation and skilled nursing services, so you'll find care for people recovering from heart attacks, strokes, surgeries, injuries, or other serious medical conditions, as well as those needing long-term care or special programs like palliative, hospice, or comfort care, and there are beds-238 certified in all-and staff including registered nurses and experienced therapists who help patients with therapy, wound care, oxygen management, nutritional needs, and even bedside hemodialysis when it's needed, and the center also covers specialty recovery like amputee support and has specialty treatments for wounds and other medical events, with some staff speaking languages besides English, which can be a help for residents from different backgrounds, though English-speaking staff are present too, and while the building itself offers some very comfortable accommodations along with social activity planning and isolated rooms for those who need extra privacy or care, the center has faced citations for falling short on care standards at times, and although it usually accepts both Medicare and Medicaid, it's not taking new patients right now, but for those already inside, planned social activities and daily living help go along with medical care, and you'll see they try to offer a full range of therapies and assessments-from nutrition to oxygen to mobility-depending on each person's condition, and while some stay short-term for rehab, others might be there for longer periods.

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