Deridder Retirement & Rehabilitation Center

The main reason this ended up being a decent nursing home is that it earned an elite inspection grade. Its inspection grade was far superior to its overall score. In our inspections category, we gave it a grade of A. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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 had positive view of this nursing home's inspections.

This facility also received a positive long-term care grade. Indeed, we awarded it a grade of B in this category, which is one of our more favorable scores. Nursing homes that receive this kind of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are kept in good health. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 98.744774 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is more than most nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility was given its next best category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this nursing home a grade of C in this category, which is an acceptable grade. With our short-term care category, we strive to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we analyze the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. In this facility's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical facility. The hope is always that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The final measure we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is below average.

This facility's worst category is nursing, which is the last area we assessed. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F in this area. In spite of a few acceptable scores in other areas, this score is nevertheless disappointing so we felt obligated to make sure you are aware. Our nursing grade considers a variety of factors. The most heavily weighted one is the number of hours nurses spend with residents. This nursing home provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is an alarmingly low total. In addition to being below average in nursing hours per resident, this place also had poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these data points. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These metrics helped pull down this facility's nursing grade significantly.