Georgian Gardens Care Center

Although we did not rate this nursing home favorably overall, we want to point out its excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that had a long list of severe deficiencies. Surprisingly, this facility received a category L deficiency, which was unexpected given its inspection grade. These are the most concerning deficiencies. This category indicates CMS discovered a widespread deficiency putting patient safety or health in imminent jeopardy. Even a single deficiency in this category is concerning. While other aspects of this nursing home's inspection report were favorable, we have some reservations.

This facility's second most favorable area ended up being its long-term care score, where it received a grade of C. Our long-term care grade focuses on a nursing home's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled nursing and medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility provided the vaccine to just 67.08861 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this place was 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.

The next category we graded was short-term care. This nursing home's was given a low-end short-term care grade where it received a lowly F. Short-term care grades are typically employed to gauge a facility's rehabilitation services In order to have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. With its grade in this category, we weren't stunned to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the data we looked at. Lastly, we considered the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Turning to the final area, this nursing home didn't perform very well in this category either. With a rock bottom grade of F in nursing, this is really as bad as it gets. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these metrics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.