The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center is a facility in Lubbock, Texas which has 254,282 people. This is not a bad nursing home with a C overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in Lubbock. As far as we can see, this place should be a solid choice for quite a few people. The best part of this nursing home's profile was is its inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.
The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Lymphedema Care
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
The primary reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it received an excellent inspection score. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave this facility a grade of A-. Our inspection grades account for a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. This is certainly a good sign for this facility.
Long-term Care Quality
Additionally, we gave this facility a grade of B in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our higher grades. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. One of the datapoints we considered on top of nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 100 percent of its residents. This is a reliable method to minimize unnecessary deaths and hospitalizations for the elderly population. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
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Nurse Quality
Another strength of this facility is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of D. Nursing ratings are mostly based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This place provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we assessed was short-term care, which was this nursing home's worst area. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is clearly very concerning. With our short-term care assessment, we attempt to forge a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Based on its grade in this category, we were not stunned to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.3 percent of its residents returning home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients which suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of quality of care.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This measures the percentage of long-term care residents who had a fall which caused severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing grades.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely linked to worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 4.81% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients exhibiting signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 94.64% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may be a sign of erosion of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients that retained mobility levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term resident care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between staying out of the emergency room and the quality of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Garrison Geriatric Education and Care Center, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements.
Scores for Lubbock, TX
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of D
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of D
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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