Care Inn of La Grange

Care Inn of La Grange is one of only two available facilities located in La Grange, Texas. With an overall rating of F, we consider this to be a bottom of the barrel nursing home. This facility doesn't seem to have much going for it. We would not blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, short-term care grades are discussed in the next section.

Even though we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a decent short-term care rating this year. We gave it a B- in that category, which was the closest thing to a bright spot we could find for this nursing home. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more important for folks requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this area by offering more physical therapy hours than a typical facility. The last metric we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients that were able to return home from the facility. This place performed well in this metric with 62.9 percent of its residents returning home. With most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

We were also pleasantly surprised to find that this facility received a somewhat respectable long-term care score this year. We awarded it a grade of C in that category. Our long-term care grade focuses on a nursing home's personal care rather than the highly skilled nursing and medical services that are critical to a rehabilitation facility. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 98.21429 percent of its patients, which is an above average percentage. The last statistic we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 1.88 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is not too far off the national average.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Our nursing rating includes numerous datapoints. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This particular place provided just 3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This statistic is quite a bit below the national average. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility was above average in two of the statistics we focus on, with good marks for avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. These datapoints are often reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

Turning our final category of inspections, this facility received a grade that's as bad as it gets. We weight this grade more heavily than other categories. For nursing homes with bad inspection ratings, you should focus on any severe deficiencies found on their recent inspection reports. This nursing home was assessed one category G through L deficiency, which rank among the more severe deficiencies. This generally indicates that the deficiencies identified by CMS had the potential to cause actual harm to residents. Another area of concern is that CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.