Lake Charles, Louisiana offers six nursing homes to choose from, which is a decent selection. We gave this city a city grade of C based on its overall nursing home quality. This is not a strong city score. This grade is not the end of the world, but it is definitely below average by national standards. The best part of this city's report card was its nursing homes' exemplary inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section.
While its overall rating was not elite, this city performed extremely well in our inspection category. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that category, which is one of our best scores. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Lake Charles also excelled in the area of health long-term care with a B. In the last two categories, this place earned a C for its short-term care grade and a grade of D in the area of nursing. Despite an otherwise respectable profile, a nursing rating of this caliber may be a bad sign for nursing staffing levels.