Garden Village

Although this facility's overall grade was terrible, it didn't perform as badly in the area of nursing. We awarded it a B- for that category. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we weigh the amount of time nurses are with patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided just 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this facility actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is often a good indicator that a place has sufficient quality controls in place.

Remarkably, we gave this nursing home a grade of B- for its short-term care grade, which really isn't a bad grade. Our short-term care grade is often employed to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its level of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. The critical question is whether this also affected quality of care. The final measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home's second worse category was long-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that area. This is a well below average score. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we finished looking at the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 98.2699 percent of its patients against pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

This facility did not receive a favorable inspection score. We gave it a grade of just just D in this category. Inspection scores relate to a facility's government inspection reports. We weight poor inspection grades heavily in our assessment. Since the inspections are compiled by independent government inspectors, we consider this information to be very reliable. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. We recommend you scrutinize the level of severity of the deficiencies. This particular facility had 11 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they caused 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.