Garden Village

The main reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection grade. In fact, its inspection score was far superior to its overall grade. In the inspections category, we gave this facility an A. Inspection ratings are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place received 11 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

The next highest category we awarded this facility in any area came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a C. With our short-term care category, we endeavor to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final measure we assessed in this area is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

This nursing home was awarded its third highest category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this category, which is an acceptable grade. If you are looking for anything other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 50.152905 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly below the national average. On a more positive note, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Switching gears to the next category, this nursing home was awarded an acceptable nursing grade of C. Our nursing rating is based on several data points, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is significantly below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. In fact, it scored well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In many cases, the quality of nursing care is every bit as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.