Garden Terrace at Overland Park

Garden Terrace at Overland Park is a large facility in Overland Park, Kansas. With a abysmal overall grade of F, this facility didn't fare well in our assessment. Fortunately, this nursing home is one of 12 nursing homes in this city so if you aren't impressed, you should have better options. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We would argue that one of the most critical factors in assessing an inspection report is deficiencies. We especially look at the severity of those deficiencies. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing rating. In fact, nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. The nursing grade includes a number of factors. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

This nursing home's second lowest score is long-term care, where it earned just a D in that area. This is a well below average score. Nursing homes that receive this kind of score in this category may not provide the kind of consistent around the clock care that some other facilities provide. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. Candidly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 85.03289 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which happens to be several points less than what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.58 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than the average nursing home. This was its best score in this category.

The next area we assessed was short-term care, is this facility's weakest area. We gave this facility a grade of D in that category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. It looks like this place was below average in two of the key staffing metrics we looked at. The facility offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most facilities. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 20.1 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.