Garden Villa Nursing Home

Although we were not complementary of this place's overall performance, it actually received an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a grade of B. Our inspection ratings account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with a list of deficiencies flagged. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

The second best category we gave this facility in any category came in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a B-. Our long-term care grade focuses on a nursing home's personal care rather than the highly skilled therapy and medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

We awarded this facility a respectable grade in the area of nursing as well, with a grade of C. Our nursing score consists of many factors, but the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This place provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a somewhat discouraging figure as it is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility excelled in some of the quality measures we looked at. It performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final category we graded is short-term care, in which this facility received a rock bottom grade in this category also. We gave it an F for this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. In computing these short-term care scores, we assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to find that this facility is well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 3.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.