Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center

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

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.

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.

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.

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.