Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center is a nursing home located in Shreveport, Louisiana, which has a total of 228,095 people. With an overall score of B, it is ranked among the top three nursing homes in the city. This nursing home definitely has plenty of good features. This nursing home's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.
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Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Aquatic Therapy
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Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
On top of earning a great overall rating, this nursing home performed even better in our inspections category which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. We gave it an A for that area, which is one of our best scores. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to this nursing home's list of accomplishments, it also was given a fine long-term care grade. We gave them an impressive strong of A in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 99.78858 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Nurse Quality
Next, we looked at the nursing category where we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. This facility didn't perform quite as well in this category as it did in some other categories. Nevertheless, this is still a respectable score. Nursing grades are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This particular nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This figure is far below average. Finally, while this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours per resident, it excelled in some of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this metric.
Short-term Care Quality
The next category we scored was short-term care, is this facility's worst category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that category. This really was one of just a couple of dings on a very solid profile. In calculating our short-term care scores, we assess the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. It appears that this nursing home was below average in two of the key staffing areas we assessed. The facility supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most nursing homes. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients that returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 10% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a barometer of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 3.48% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 2.69% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents that suffered from urinary tract infections. UTI's may be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be skewed for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 16.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic indicates the percentage of long-term care residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior in situations where such medications are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely more on these drugs due to having more residents with cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 22.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 1.51% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents showing signs of depression. Some experts argue this is a measure of patient quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 85.51% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 19.03% Percentage of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term care patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and eating. Some would argue that this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 13.75% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 2.4 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This datapoint is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 13.75 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 13.45 Percentage of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center, 67.8% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe this is a measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Shreveport, LA
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
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Nearby Hospitals
- Christus Health Shreveport - BossierAcute Care Hospitals 2.69 miles away1453 E Bert Kouns Industrial Drive Shreveport Louisiana 71105Voluntary non-profit - Private(318) 681-5000
- Ochsner Lsu Health ShreveportAcute Care Hospitals 4.54 miles away1541 Kings Highway Shreveport Louisiana 71103Voluntary non-profit - Private(318) 675-5000
- Willis Knighton Medical Center, IncAcute Care Hospitals 4.77 miles away2600 Greenwood Road Shreveport Louisiana 71103Voluntary non-profit - Private(318) 212-4000
- Brentwood HospitalPsychiatric 6.12 miles away1006 Highland Avenue Shreveport Louisiana 71106Proprietary(318) 678-7500
Nearby Dialysis
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