Garden View Care Center

Even though we gave this nursing home a terrible overall score, we gave it a C for short-term care. Our short-term care grades are critical for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We were surprised to find that this nursing home was below average in the two key staffing areas we focus on. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. It is important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

Sadly, this facility's second best category was inspections, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. You should be most cautious when considering a facility with severe deficiencies on a recent inspection report. This particular facility was assessed 6 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines totaling over $100,000. This typically suggests that a nursing home'spoor track record has been an issue for more than one year.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of skill of the nurses as well as the number of hours spent with residents. This nursing home offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we analyzed was long-term care. It received an F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. One of the factors we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 98.039215 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had just 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.