Avoyelles Manor Health and Rehab Center

We want to draw your attention to the fact that this facility outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest scores in that category with an A. Inspection scores account for several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this area usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. We wish we had more information about this nursing home. Without complete deficiency data, it is a challenge to grade this nursing home in the inspections category.

This facilities next best area was long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C in this area. This is essentially a slightly below average grade in this area. Long-term care grades are typically used to judge a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing more on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 98.8189 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is more than the average nursing home. This nursing home keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's second lowest category is short-term care, where it earned just a D in that area. This is a well below average score. With our short-term care rating, we try to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this nursing home provides substantially less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the typical facility. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

This nursing home's least impressive category is nursing, which is the last area we scored. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this area. Even with multiple solid scores in other areas, this grade is nevertheless disappointing so we felt obligated to make a note of it. Our nursing rating looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility offered just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. This nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to pair with its low nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers. This facility was at more than twice the national average in this statistic. This is concerning when you consider that many pressure ulcers are preventable with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the facility's fate of receiving a poor nursing score.