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On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score. This score is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can offer a facility. Inspection scores account for a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with better grades in this category tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Without having access to information regarding deficiencies for this nursing home, it is a challenge to fully grade it in this category.

In addition, this facility was given superb marks in the category of short-term care. As a result, it received one of our best scores in that category with a score of A+. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. This facility excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility provided about 50% more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the typical facility. This is definitely a very favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of facilities in the country with 75.5 percent of its residents returning home.

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Our nursing grade weighs several subcategories, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provided 6.8 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which is among the higher totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We are very impressed by these figures. On top of providing high levels of care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality measures we looked at. It performed as well as any facility in Louisiana in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

Turning to the next area, this nursing home received a decent long-term care rating. Although this is not quite as strong as a few of its other scores, this is really not a bad grade. Long-term care grades assess a facility's assistance with daily living instead of the skilled nursing or healthcare services that are critical to a skilled nursing facility. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this nursing home provided vaccination data. Finally, this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.