Garden Park Health Care Center

Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a grade of C for our nursing rating. Our nursing category weighs quite a few components, many of which are tied to quantities of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, nursing scores also consider quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a place has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a facility provides enough nurses to assist its patients.

As it turns out, its inspection reports were not the source of this facility's abysmal overall grade. It received a C in this category. Our inspection grades are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important item to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to patient safety. This nursing home was assessed 3 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories G through L. This means this facility avoided the more serious classes of deficiencies. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

This facility's second least favorable score was short-term care, where it received just a D in that area. This is a well below average grade. With our short-term care score, we attempt to forge a meaningful measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we assess a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this facility provides far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The last measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its patients returning home.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care. This nursing home received a very poor grade of F in that area. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at long-term care scores. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Fortunately, this facility administered the vaccine to 98.809525 percent of its residents, which is a very solid total. Surprisingly, this nursing home also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.