Acadia St. Landry Guest House

The primary reason this turned out to be a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection score. Its inspection grade was far better than its overall grade. In our inspections category, we gave it an A. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. We weren't able to track down information about this nursing home's deficiencies. We would like to have more data for this facility. Without having complete deficiency related data, it was a challenge to fully grade the place in terms of this category.

This facility also fared well in the area of long-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which is one of our best grades. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure residents are kept in good health. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 99.71346 percent of its patients, which is very impressive. Pneumonia can be a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also gave this nursing home a decent score in the category of nursing care, with a grade of C. We looked at the qualifications of nurses employed by the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a somewhat concerning figure which is well below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. It scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

This nursing home's weakest category is short-term care, which is the last category we assessed. Sadly, it received a lowly F for this category. Even with several acceptable grades in other categories, this score is still of a concern so we felt obligated to make a note of it. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We assess a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average 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.