Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence is located in Fort Worth, Texas, which is one of the most densely populated cities in the country. With an overall grade of B+, this facility should work for most prospective residents. In fact, we thought highly enough of this nursing home to rate it ahead of most of the nursing homes in Fort Worth. You should also take a look at this nursing home's category grades below. Long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.
Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home received a strong overall grade as mentioned above, but we wanted to point out its excellent long-term care grade. We gave them a grade of A in this category. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Facility Inspections
This facility also excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we gave it an A- for that area, which is one of our highest grades. This is one of the few nursing homes with an overall score in this range which received multiple category grades this high. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This facility was hit with 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Short-term Care Quality
The third area we assessed was short-term care. We awarded them one of our strongest grades in that area, with a A-. In the area of short-term care, we attempt to evaluate measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to our final area, this nursing home received a respectable nursing score. While this was not nearly as elite as several of its other scores, this is truly not a poor grade. The nursing grade weighs numerous factors. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, nursing grades also factor in quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours, this facility actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a fall which resulted in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be an indicator of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely caused by a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this statistic could be misleading for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. These medications are used for treating a variety of medical conditions, including cognitive disorders.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 4.81% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who are showing depressive symptoms. High levels of depression may reveal lower quality care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 94.64% of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as getting dressed and eating.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is key to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Scores for Fort Worth, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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