With 71,335 people, Denham Springs, Louisiana is a small city. Unfortunately, there is only one nursing home there. Unfortunately, this nursing home earned an overall grade of D, which is a poor score. Nationally, most nursing homes received a much higher grade than this place. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its nursing homes' category scores. This city's nursing homes surprisingly received a strong grade in the area of inspections for instance.
Despite receiving an abysmal overall grade, this city's sole nursing home performed extremely well in our inspections category. As a result, it received one of our highest ratings in that category with a grade of A-. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with a list of deficiencies flagged. This facility also received a strong long-term care score. We gave it a B in this area. In the other categories we looked at, we gave the city abysmal grades in our nursing and short-term care categories respectively.