Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence is an average-sized nursing home located in Houston, Texas. This nursing home received a grade of B overall. We found it to be better than the majority of the facilities in Houston, which has a city grade of B-. Despite Houston having 60 nursing homes available, this facility looks like a respectable option. This place's strong profile was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.
Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Inpatient 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
Facility Inspections
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area typically avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.
Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. Our nursing rating is mostly based on a nursing home's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality measures and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Texas in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a resident even once per day.
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Short-term Care Quality
This facility also was awarded a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, we gave it an above average grade of B+ in this category. Our short-term care ratings are meaningful for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like 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 were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.4 percent of this facility's patients returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we rated is long-term care, which proved to be this facility's worst category. We gave this nursing home a D in this area. Unfortunately, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to a certain degree. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. After we finished assessing the volume of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home also keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
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 is the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This figure tells you the percentage of long-term stay patients that have experienced a urinary tract infection. UTI's may be an indicator of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for certain facilities due to varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs may be used to treat a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents which are given antianxiety medication. These medications are commonly prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 4.81% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many believe that this is a measure of resident quality of care.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 94.64% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients that were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Garden Terrace Alzheimer's Center of Excellence, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Scores for Houston, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of B-plus
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Nearby Hospitals
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Nearby Dialysis
- Med Center at Home0.68 miles away7580 Fannin Street, Suite 230 Houston Texas 77054Dialysis Stations: 4 (713) 790-0150
- Houston Dialysis0.74 miles away900 South Loop West Ste. 100 Houston Texas 77054CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (713) 748-0942
- Premier Dialysis-Dsi, LLC0.9 miles away8181 N Stadium Drive Suite 100 Houston Texas 77054Dialysis Stations: 15 (713) 425-1969
- Us Renal Care Home Therapies0.91 miles away8515 Fannin Street Houston Texas 77054Dialysis Stations: 5 (713) 668-2744
- Sng - Sohum Southeast Houston Dialysis Center Lp1.03 miles away7647 South Freeway Houston Texas 77021Dialysis Stations: 24 (713) 842-1010
- Reliant Dialysis1.04 miles away1335 La Concha Houston Texas 77054Dialysis Stations: 24 (713) 794-0600
- Texas Childrens Hospital Dialysis Unit1.06 miles away6621 Fannin Ste Wt 8-100 Houston Texas 77030Dialysis Stations: 14 (832) 826-0850
- Medical Center Kidney Clinic1.08 miles away2254 Holcombe Blvd Houston Texas 77030CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (713) 797-9909