Garden Gate Health Care Facility turns out to be one of a host of options you can choose from in Buffalo, New York. We awarded this facility an overall grade of B. A score of this caliber requires quality scores in most areas. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Buffalo. This facility's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Garden Gate Health Care Facility
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
To pair with its favorable overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't something to panic about.
Long-term Care Quality
Another quality feature for this nursing home is that it was given a very positive long-term care score. Indeed, this ended up being its second best category score. In this area, we gave this facility a B+. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This is a proven method to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the aged 65 and up population. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the third area, this nursing home also received a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is an above average score in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This category is frequently a useful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
The next category we rated is nursing. We awarded this facility a D for nursing, making this its least impressive area. Our nursing grade is primarily associated with a facility's nurse staffing. This facility averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This statistic is well below average. Although this nursing home didn't excel in the area of nursing hours, it actually surprised us in a few of the quality-based assessments in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed better than average in this metric, which was one redeeming quality we found in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Garden Gate Health Care Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 13.18% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 2.78% of Patients had Serious Falls
This measures the percentage of long-term residents which have sustained a fall which resulted in major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indication of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 0.19% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this metric could be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 8.59% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used for a variety of medical conditions, such as dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 11.78% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 10% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 99.66% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 7.96% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 5.13% of Residents
This tells you the percent of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 5.13% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 7.73% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between reduced emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Garden Gate Health Care Facility, 94.81% of Resident
This is the percentage of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Scores for Buffalo, NY
- Overall Rating has a grade of B
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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