Carrington Place of Baton Rouge

Carrington Place of Baton Rouge is located in the densely populated metropolitan area of Baton Rouge, Louisiana which has a total of 378,909 people. This nursing home was given an overall rating of F. Based on our analysis, this facility is not a fit for anyone. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category was inspections, which is addressed in the next section.

While this facility's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some are relatively minor. 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. In spite of this deficiency, this nursing home still received a relatively favorable report.

Turning to the category of long-term care, this facility was awarded a grade of just D in that category. Unfortunately, this ended up being its second best grade. If you are seeking anything other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care scores. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccination to 95.47414 percent of its residents. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.33 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, this figure is far less impressive than its vaccination record.

Among this nursing home's several poor grades was its F in the area of nursing care. Our nursing rating is based on a handful of subcategories, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. In addition to receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this facility was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that so many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. This statistic pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating substantially.

The last area we scored was short-term care. This nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade of F in this category. Our short-term care scores are believed to be more important for people in need of a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 40.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.