Garden Court Health and Rehabilitation Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality facility is that it received an impressive inspection score. In fact, inspections is its best category grade. In this area, we gave this facility an A-. These inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining 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.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing grade considers a host of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Louisiana in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents even once per day.

Turning to our third area, this facility also received a grade of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this category. Our short-term care grade is often used to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to have better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The next area we assessed is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a C. With our long-term care grade, we look at the quantity of services provided by a facility, along with a few quality metrics. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We were not able to track down this place's vaccination data. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.