The Care Center is an average-sized nursing home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Featuring an overall grade of C, this appears to be a middle of the road facility. At the end of the day, this place looks like a good fit for most people. The best part of this nursing home's report card was its stellar inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section.
The Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Optometry
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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 still had a generally positive view of this facility's recent inspections.
Long-term Care Quality
One of this nursing home's better category scores came in the category of long-term care. This wound up being its second best category. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B-. With our long-term care rating, we look at the amount of services offered by a facility, along with a series of quality metrics. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 93.56061 percent of its patients, which is somewhat below what we anticipated. On a more positive note, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to the area of short-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in that category. In calculating our short-term care scores, we scrutinize the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is frequently a meaningful assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. With a grade this poor in this area, we weren't shocked to find this facility was below average in the two key staffing metrics we looked at. In fact, it provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 0 percent of its residents returning home.
Nurse Quality
The last category we scored was nursing, which ended up being a weak link for this nursing home. We awarded this nursing home a D for nursing. The nursing grade features a host of data points. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. With a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this facility's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Care Center, 9.76% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be a measure of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Care Center, 3.46% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of patients who suffered from a fall which resulted in severe injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Care Center, 2.79% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint indicates the percent of long-term stay residents who sustained urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to varying reporting standards.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Care Center, 16.28% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to residents for a variety of conditions, including Alzheimer's or other dementias. Unfortunately, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Care Center, 22.6% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Care Center, 1.48% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who are showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Care Center, 89.54% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Care Center, 17.84% Percentage of Patients
This metric measures the percent of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as taking medications and taking a bath. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Care Center, 15.38% Percentage of Residents
This tells you the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Optimizing mobility is often a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In The Care Center, 2.05 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Care Center, 15.38 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Care Center, 12.77 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Care Center, 64.63% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percentage of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of independence with ADL's generally correlates with successful rehabilitation.
Scores for Baton Rouge, LA
- Overall Rating has a grade of C
- Nurse Rating has a grade of C
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of C
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
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