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's next best category was inspections. Nevertheless, with just a D in this category, it still performed relatively poorly. Our inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection report. Generally, you should be especially cautious when considering a facility with severe deficiencies on its inspection reports. This particular facility was hit with one category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst deficiencies. These categories mean that inspectors found a deficiency which places resident safety or health in immediate jeopardy. Finally, we also want to point out that this facility received significant government fines totaling more than $100,000. This generally suggests that a nursing home'sbad track record has been an issue for multiple years.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. Our nursing grade consists of a handful of components, however, the primary one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is far below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing grades. This nursing home performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we looked at was long-term care, where this facility was given a poor grade here also. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this area, which is definitely very concerning. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. On top of considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 52.55814 percent of its residents. This is significantly less than the national average. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.