Bayou Manor

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A+. Very few facilities fared as well in this category. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively insignificant. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This tells you that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Compounding its top-shelf accomplishments in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care rating. Our short-term care grades are vital for patients in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing. This means a vast range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return home. We found that 5.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility received an impressive grade of A- in our nursing category. We scrutinized the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the number of hours the nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on to the fourth area, this nursing home was awarded an extremely favorable long-term care score. We gave it an A- in this category, giving this facility straight A's. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 90.909096 percent of its patients. This is slightly below what we were hoping for but still a decent percentage. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.