Garden Village

Although we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a B for our inspections category. This grade is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that have too many severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's next highest category is its long-term care score, where it was given a grade of C. In forming our long-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. Unfortunately, this nursing home vaccinated a relatively low 61.26984 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this nursing home excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home received its third best category score in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is an acceptable grade. Our short-term care grade is commonly used to gauge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. The last item we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

The last category we assessed is nursing, was this facility's weakest area. We awarded this nursing home a D in that category. Our nursing grade is largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home averaged just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This statistic is well below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing scores. This place performed well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.