Gardenview Manor

Although we graded this nursing home very poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing rating this year. We gave it a B- in this category. There are a number of criteria within this grade. Most of these datapoints reflect levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low figure. Finally, despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this place actually performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a facility has quality controls in place.

Turning to the category of short-term care, this facility received just a D in that category. As it turns out, this wound up being one of its better grades. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess a facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This area is often a useful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.6 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

This nursing home ended up receiving a a very poor grade in our long-term care category. It received a lowly F in this category. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. As it turns out, this nursing home gave the vaccine to just 53.100777 percent of its patients, which is slightly concerning. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best score in this category.

Turning our last category of inspections, this nursing home received a terrible score. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection rating, you should look for severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. This particular facility was assessed 10 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only favorable thing we found is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they posed a risk to patient safety or health. Lastly, this facility was flagged by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We prefer to avoid facilities with this designation. Please do your best to find an alternative nursing home.