Baptist Health La Grange
1025 New Moody Lane, La Grange KY 40031 · (502) 222-5388 · 37% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Baptist Health La Grange is a small hospital-based nursing home in La Grange, Kentucky. Sporting an overall grade of A+, this facility is undoubtedly an elite nursing home. In fact, this is one of the top 50 facilities in the United States, which is just an incredibly impressive accomplishment. Finally, this proved to be a very consistent nursing home with consistently strong scores in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about its category grades can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 30 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. There are several factors included in this category. Many of the subcategories reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provided 7 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the more skilled levels of nurses. We were really impressed by both of these figures. In addition to offering impressive levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any nursing home in the country when it comes to minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care being provided.
Short-term Care Quality
Another reason we rated this nursing home so favorably is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is just about as dominant as it gets in this area. Short-term care grades are typically used to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. To offer good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This facility provides more services with registered nurses and physical therapists than most nursing homes we looked at. This is typically a great sign. The last metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Kentucky in this area with 66.6 percent of its patients returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
This facility also received a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This facility was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Long-term Care Quality
In our last category, this nursing home was given another A+ for its long-term care grade. This completed a remarkable profile of straight A+'s. Facilities that receive this type of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure patients are well cared for. After assessing the impressive nursing hours provided by this nursing home, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Baptist Health La Grange Quality Metrics
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often caused by poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols limits the number of major falls sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often associated with lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint can also be skewed for some facilities due to varying reporting standards for these infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used for several medical conditions, such as dementia.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term stay patients demonstrating signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term patients that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of performance with ADL's generally correlates with higher quality rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better