Garden Park Health Care Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our short-term care rating. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is typically a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The last statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

We were also surprised to find that this facility received a decent nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Our nursing score is primarily associated with a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a low total compared to most nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality measures 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 many cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

The next category we graded is long-term care, where this nursing home received an F. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 97.90576 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

Moving on our final category of inspections, this facility received an abysmal grade. For nursing homes that received this poor of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they caused a risk to resident health or safety. Lastly, we want to point out that this place received significant government fines in recent years totaling over $100,000. This generally indicates that a poor performance has been an issue for more than one year.