Garden Court Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Even though this facility's overall grade was terrible, it didn't perform as poorly in nursing. In fact, we gave it a B- for this category. Nursing ratings are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This figure is significantly below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these areas to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is as important as the quantity of hours of care provided.

We were also pleasantly surprised to discover that this facility received a decent short-term care score this year. We awarded it a C in that area. Our short-term care grades are probably most critical for people requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The real question is whether this also affected quality of care. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this figure is below average.

This nursing home did not receive favorable inspection reports in recent years. In fact, it only received a grade of D for its inspection grade. Inspection grades weigh several factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home had one category J through K deficiency, which are among the worst categories of deficiencies. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this place was assessed significant government fines recently of over $100,000. This usually indicates that a nursing home's poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.

The last category we assessed is long-term care. This facility was given a very poor grade of F in that area. Nursing homes that do not fare well in this category typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine healthcare services we looked at. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to just 39.810425 percent of its patients, which is not a very encouraging sign. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best feature in this category.