Acadia St. Landry Guest House

While this facility's overall grade was decent, it really fared well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection ratings. One key factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency data for this nursing home. Without having access to all of the deficiency related data for this nursing home, it ended up being challenging to really grade it in terms of this category.

We also wanted to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received a strong long-term care score. In fact, we gave it one of our most impressive grades in that category with a grade of A-. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's next best category was nursing. We awarded it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a middle of the road grade in this category. We scrutinized the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in computing our grade in this category. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a low total compared to most nursing homes. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.

Switching gears to the final category, this nursing home really did not perform very well. With a rock bottom grade of F in short-term care, this is this facility's poorest grade. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. In this place's case, it looks like it offered fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.