Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center
9111 Linwood Avenue, Shreveport LA 71106 · (318) 688-0961 · 93.31% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center is located in Shreveport, Louisiana, a city with a population of 228,095 people. Sporting an overall score of B, this is a fine facility. Even in a city with 21 nursing homes, this one looks like a perfectly acceptable choice. The best aspect of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection score. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 160 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
This facility received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially wanted to point out its nearly flawless government inspections in recent years. We awarded it an A+ in this area. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Without having deficiency related data for this facility, it is a challenge to fully evaluate the place in terms of this category.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility fared well in our long-term care category. In fact, we gave it a grade of A for that area, which is one of our higher scores. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 97.40485 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.82 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility is just about middle of the road in this area.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. While this wasn't quite as good as some of its other category grades, this isn't a bad score either. There are a number of factors included in this category. Most of these criteria reflect staffing levels. Based on the CMS data, this nursing home offers 3.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these statistics. With less than five percent of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this area. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a policy of turning residents more often.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's worst category is short-term care, which is the last category we scored. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a D. Our short-term care ratings are believed to be more meaningful for individuals needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 36 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This statistic gauges the percent of long-term patients who had falls resulting in major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be an indication of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percent of patients who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections may be associated with inadequate hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This statistic measures the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some situations, increased usage of these drugs may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are generally prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percentage of long-term care patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of patients that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better