Care Inn of La Grange

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

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Care Inn of La Grange's website

457 N Main St,
La Grange TX 78945

(979) 968-5865

45.91% estimated occupancy ¹

Care Inn of La Grange is an average-sized nursing home located in La Grange, Texas. With a bottom of the barrel overall grade of F, this nursing home isn't high on our list. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in La Grange. The city has just one other nursing home. We wouldn't blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, long-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Limited Liability company
Offers Hospice
Offers Respite Care
Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Transportation
Dialysis Transportation
Medical Transportation
Speech Therapy
IV Antibiotic Therapy
Wound Care
Occupational Therapy
Mental Health
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy

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Long-term Care Quality

Even though this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform quite as poorly in the area of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a C for that category, which isn't bad. Unfortunately, this was not enough to salvage its otherwise poor profile. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an C. The nursing rating includes a number of subcategories. The most heavily weighted variable is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below the national average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this nursing home surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. In fact, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the number of hours of care provided.

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Short-term Care Quality

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care score. This is not a very good score. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. As you might expect, we found that this nursing home offers significantly less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average facility. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 5.6 percent of its residents returning home.

Facility Inspections

Moving on the last category of inspections, this nursing home had an abysmal showing. Sadly, it received an F in our inspection rating. This happens to be the most heavily weighted category in our overall scoring system. With facilities that received this poor of an inspection score, we would scrutinize any severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility had one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more serious categories of deficiencies. These categories indicate that the deficiencies found by inspectors had potential to create actual harm to residents. Finally, this facility also received 12 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is yet another bad sign.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Care Inn of La Grange Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Care Inn of La Grange, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of residents that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also called bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Care Inn of La Grange, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls

This metric measures the percent of long-term care residents who have suffered falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing scores.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Care Inn of La Grange, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percent of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Care Inn of La Grange, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term residents taking antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Care Inn of La Grange, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are generally given to residents experiencing anxiety and depression.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Care Inn of La Grange, 4.81% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients who are exhibiting depressive symptoms. Some would argue that this is a reliable measure of patient quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Care Inn of La Grange, 94.64% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines vital to patient care.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Care Inn of La Grange, 17.1% Percentage of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term care residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and eating.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Care Inn of La Grange, 16.36% Percentage of Residents

This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

In Care Inn of La Grange, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Care Inn of La Grange, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Care Inn of La Grange, 11.4 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Care Inn of La Grange, 66.86% Percentage of Resident

This metric measures the percent of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry believe that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.