Garden Court Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Neither this place's overall score nor its category grades gave us much to write home about. Its best area was short-term care, but even there it received a grade of just D. Short-term care grades are based in part on a facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Considering its poor rating in this area, we were not shocked to find this nursing home offers far fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Unfortunately, this nursing home received an F for its inspection score. This is a particularly important category. Grades in this range generally point to some red flags on the nursing home's government inspection reports. You should pay special attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection grade. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of those deficiencies. This nursing home was hit with one category J through K deficiency, which rank among the worst categories of deficiencies. This generally means that CMS uncovered a deficiency which places resident health or safety in immediate jeopardy. Lastly, we also want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility was assessed large government fines recently totaling over $100,000. This often indicates that a poor track record spanned more than one year.

This facility ended up receiving rock bottom score in our nursing category. It received an F in this category. Our nursing grade focuses on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of training of those nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This place averaged a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The last area we assessed was long-term care, in which this facility received an abysmal grade here as well. It received a lowly F for this category, which is definitely somewhat alarming. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to patient care. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were a bit alarmed this facility vaccinated 39.10891 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly below what we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.