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. Based on this, we had favorable view of this facility's inspections.

In addition, we also wanted to note that this facility received impressive long-term care marks in this assessment. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that category, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the facility's second best score. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and indicates that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 98.83721 percent of its patients, which is more than the average nursing home. Lastly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home wound up receiving a a very poor grade in our short-term care area. It was given an F in this area. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This area is more often than not a solid assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Given its grade in this area, we were not stunned to discover that this place is well below average in terms of the quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its patients based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was what we expected to find. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 5.1 percent of its patients returning home.

The next category we graded was nursing. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is an abysmal score. This is obviously a significant concern. When determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we assess the quantity of hours nurses are seeing residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these statistics to be good measures of the quality of nursing care.