The Gardens on University

Although we graded this facility very poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable nursing rating this year. We gave it a C in this area. Our nursing score is mostly based on the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a relatively low total compared with most other facilities. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly fared better in some of the quality measures we looked at. It scored well in terms of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls.

Moving on to the category of short-term care, this nursing home was awarded a grade of just D in that area. Sadly, this proved to be one of its best areas. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is generally a fair assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Based on its grade in this area, we weren't stunned to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we assessed. Frankly, this was about what we expected to find. The final metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.2 percent of its patients returning home.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. Generally, this indicates we found red flags on the nursing home's government inspection reports. For facilities that received this poor of an inspection rating, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular nursing home was assessed one category J or K deficiency, which are among the worst deficiencies. Lastly, we need to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home received large government fines in recent years of more than $100,000. This often signifies that a nursing home's bad performance spanned several years.

The final area we analyzed is long-term care. We gave it an abysmal F in this area, which is a rock bottom grade. For long-term care residents, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours was vaccines. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 96.47059 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.