Garden Care Center

The main reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of A. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are quite insignificant. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This nursing home's second highest area ended up being short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a C. Our short-term care scores are important for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. The last item we considered in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.2 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below the national average.

This facilities third best category was long-term care. We awarded it a C in this category. This is basically a slightly below average grade in this category. Long-term care grades are meaningful for patients looking for non-healthcare services such as personal care. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 78.40617 percent of its patients. This is multiple points below average. Fortunately, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this facility didn't fare very well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in nursing, this was this nursing home's poorest area. We scrutinized the licensure of nurses at the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our rating in this category. With just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day, this nursing home's nurse staffing levels were significantly below the national average. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this place was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.