Garden View Care Center of O’Fallon

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of B- in that category. Our nursing category is based on several components, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This place provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home actually performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

This nursing home also didn't rate terribly in the category of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is among its better scores. Our short-term care scores are likely most critical for patients in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not just nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.

We were also pleasantly surprised to discover that this nursing home earned a somewhat respectable long-term care score in our assessment. We gave it a C in that area. For prospective patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 95.454544 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The final category we looked at is inspections. This ended up being this nursing home's worst grade. We gave it a D in this area. Since this data is compiled by government inspectors, we weight it heavily in our assessment. One of the more significant factors in evaluating an inspection report is deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of those deficiencies. This facility was hit with 5 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.