Deerfield Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

Deerfield Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is the sole option we found in Delhi, Louisiana. This is a relatively poor nursing home, with an overall grade of D. Based on our analysis, this facility likely isn't the best fit for most prospective residents. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, you can continue reading to learn more about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.

Although we didn't rate this facility favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent score in the category of inspections, where it earned an A. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally in your best interest to avoid facilities that have too many severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.

We also gave this nursing home a decent grade in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a B-. In our long-term care category, we focus more on the amount of services provided by a facility, as well as some quality metrics. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 96.83258 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.52 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. There are numerous criteria included in this grade. Most of the factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is slightly below the national average. Unfortunately, this nursing home also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hour totals. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This facility was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this metric. This is a bad sign in light of the fact that so many bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. This statistic helped pull down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.

The next category we graded is short-term care. It received an abysmal F in this category, which is an abysmal grade. Our short-term care grades are important for prospective residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a vast scope of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this place offered less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most nursing homes. The final metric we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 21 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below the national average.