Camelot of Broussard

The main reason this nursing home received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that area, with an A. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

An additional strength of this facility is its high-end grade in long-term care. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of A-. When facilities receive this kind of score in long-term care it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 97.66355 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another issue is the F this facility was given in the area of short-term care. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to create a sound gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. With its score in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this facility was well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the data we assessed. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 5.1 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

The final category we scored was nursing. It received a lowly F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is obviously a significant disappointment. In computing our nursing scores, we weigh both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided only 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is well below average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.