Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Gonzales, Louisiana. With a really poor overall grade of F, this nursing home isn't high on our list. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Gonzales. The city has just one other nursing home. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
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Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Note: Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Tracheotomy Care
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. Our inspection grades are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we were able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.
Long-term Care Quality
We were also surprised to discover that this facility received a solid long-term care grade in our assessment. We gave it a B- in that area. In calculating our long-term care scores, we analyze the facility's ability to maintain its permanent residents' health and quality of life. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.22078 percent of its patients. This nursing home was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
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Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in that category. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and various therapists. As you might expect, we discovered that this facility provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor statistics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.
Nurse Quality
Moving on to the next area, we gave this nursing home a D for our nursing category. This is the nursing home's worst category score. Our nursing grade features many factors. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spent with residents. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were significantly below average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility had really bad marks in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents having falls leading to serious injury. This nursing home was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 3.55% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This figure is an indication of the percent of long-term residents which developed new or worsened pressure ulcers. We have found that pressure ulcers are a solid measure of nursing care quality.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 5.45% of Patients had Serious Falls
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents that sustained falls which caused major injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but excessive numbers of falls could be a sign of lower levels of patient supervision.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 2.67% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are linked to poor hygiene.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 4% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used to treat a variety of medical conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 15.48% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These medications are given to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 99.11% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients that have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 14.77% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of erosion of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 4.56% of Residents
This tells you the percentage of patients who remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 4.56% of Residents Rehospitalized
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 8.34% of Patients
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Ascension Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 51.19% of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- St James Behavioral Health Hospital, IncPsychiatric 2.57 miles away3136 South St Landry Road Gonzales Louisiana 70737Voluntary non-profit - Private(225) 647-7524
- Prevost Memorial HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 11 miles away301 Memorial Dr Donaldsonville Louisiana 70346Government - Hospital District or Authority(225) 474-2133
- Womans HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.52 miles away100 Woman's Way Baton Rouge Louisiana 70817Voluntary non-profit - Private(225) 927-1300
- Ochsner Medical Center - Baton RougeAcute Care Hospitals 14.91 miles away17000 Medical Center Dr Baton Rouge Louisiana 70816Voluntary non-profit - Private(225) 752-2470
- Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.9 miles away5000 Hennessy Blvd Baton Rouge Louisiana 70808Voluntary non-profit - Church(225) 765-6565
- St James Parish HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 18.26 miles away1645 Lutcher Avenue Lutcher Louisiana 70071Government - Hospital District or Authority(225) 869-5512
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Magnolia Dialysis0.58 miles away1125 South Burnside Ave Gonzales Louisiana 70737Dialysis Stations: 17 (225) 644-4490
- Fmcna - Gonzales0.58 miles away2326 South Darla Ave Gonzales Louisiana 70737Dialysis Stations: 17 (225) 647-4814
- Davita - Prairieville5.67 miles away17123 Commerce Center Dr Prairieville Louisiana 70769Dialysis Stations: 17 (225) 673-1127
- Fmcna - Ascension5.67 miles away17392 Vallee Ct Prairieville Louisiana 70769Dialysis Stations: 17 (225) 622-0685
- Fmcna - Donaldsonville Dialysis9.92 miles away101 Plimsol Dr Donaldsonville Louisiana 70346Dialysis Stations: 16 (225) 473-1139
- Fmcna - Greater Baton Rouge Home Program15.22 miles away5399 Mancuso Lane Baton Rouge Louisiana 70809Dialysis Stations: 15 (225) 819-2036
- Fmcna - Mancuso15.35 miles away4848 Mancuso Ln, Ste A Baton Rouge Louisiana 70809Dialysis Stations: 21 (225) 766-6773
- Davita - East Baton Rouge15.64 miles away1333 Oneal Ln Baton Rouge Louisiana 70816Dialysis Stations: 16 (225) 226-1444