The Gardens at Millville

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A couple minor deficiencies should not lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.

This facility's second best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of C. Our nursing rating is largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat alarming figure as it is well below average. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. While this nursing home got dinged a bit for nursing hours per resident, it actually excelled in a few of these quality-based measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did remarkably well in this statistic. This can be an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of turning residents even once per day.

Sadly, this nursing home only earned a D for its short-term care score, which is not a score to write home about. Short-term care grades are generally employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation To have quality rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. As you might expect, we found that this facility offers substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The final datapoint we looked at in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.

The final category we looked at was long-term care, which proved to be this facility's least impressive area. We awarded this facility a grade of D in this area. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the factors we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Thankfully, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 94.14893 percent of its patients. To our surprise, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than the average nursing home. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.