Ashford Gardens

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a B for our inspections category. This grade is much more impressive than the place's overall score. Perhaps the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that had too many deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

One of this facility's better category grades came in the area of short-term care. This ended up being its second most favorable category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a C. In computing our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is typically a fair assessment of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. When calculating a facility's nursing rating, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are with patients and the skill levels of the nurses. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we assessed is long-term care, which is this nursing home's worst category. We gave this facility a D in that area. In a long-term care environment, the nursing home's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinates 99.68553 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.