Garden Court Health and Rehabilitation Center

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an elite inspection grade. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave this facility an A-. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

This nursing home also received a strong nursing grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B in that category, which is one of our better scores. Nursing grades are largely based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This facility's third highest area ended up being its long-term care grade, where it was awarded a grade of C. In the category of long-term care, we analyze the amount of services offered by a nursing home, as opposed to more healthcare-oriented services. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home provided the vaccine to a relatively low 9.090909 percent of its residents. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on to the next category, we gave this facility a grade of D in short-term care. This was the facility's weakest category grade. Sadly, this category hurt the nursing home's overall grade a bit. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 3.8 percent of its residents returning home.