Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence
7500 Oakmont Blvd, Fort Worth TX 76132 · (817) 346-8080 · 44.16% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence is an average-sized nursing home located in Fort Worth, Texas. We gave this facility a very respectable overall grade of A. As a matter of fact, we ranked it as the fifth best facility in Fort Worth. Even in a city featuring 37 nursing homes, this facility really stands out as a great selection. If you scroll down, you will see this place's category scores, which look to be just as strong as its overall score.
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
On top of faring well overall, this nursing home received an excellent short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it an impressive grade of A in that category. In our short-term care assessment, we try to forge a fair measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Texas in this area with 61.6 percent of its patients returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. In computing a facility's nursing rating, we assess the amount of time nurses commit to residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. With 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this facility surpassed the vast majority of facilities. Finally, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we assessed. For example, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as reliable measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided.
Long-term Care Quality
Moving on to the fourth area, this facility also performed admirably in our long-term care category. In fact, we gave it an A- for that category. This completed truly elite report card. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 91.056915 percent of its patients. This is somewhat below what we expected but still a decent percentage. This place was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 1.32 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are often the result of lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes associated with insufficient 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 drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These drugs are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This indicates the percentage of residents demonstrating depressive symptoms. High levels of depression could be an indicator worse patient care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients who retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric is a measure of the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to assess patient care during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's often correlates with successful rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better