Garden Gate Health Care Facility

Garden Gate Health Care Facility is a facility in Buffalo, New York which has 564,824 people. It looks like this nursing home is among the most elite facilities we looked at. Receiving an A+ in our grading scheme requires top-notch marks across the board. Indeed, this is substantially better than most of the facilities in the city. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's remarkable report card is its inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection rating. This grade is based on its recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category tend to have very few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Nursing scores are mostly tied to the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 4.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is among the more impressive figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We are really impressed by both of these statistics. In addition to offering high levels of nursing care, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. It performed as well as any facility in New York in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

This facility also received a high-end short-term care score. Indeed, this is this facility's third most impressive category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. Our short-term care grade is typically used to assess a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in New York in this area with 64.2 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

In the final category, this facility also received an impressive long-term care grade, with an A-. This wrapped up a very strong report card. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the criteria we considered after this nursing home's above average nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for seniors. This combination proved to be effective as this facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.64 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.