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 short-term care score, where it received a grade of C. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To provide highly scored rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final item we considered in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We also wanted to draw your attention to this facility's poor nursing grade where it received an F. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we weigh the number of hours nurses are seeing patients and the level of licensure of those nurses. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This place fared well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The last area we graded was long-term care, where this facility received an abysmal grade in this category as well. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area, which is definitely a major concern. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 68.98148 percent of its patients. This is pretty significantly lower than average. Surprisingly, this place actually fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.