Fondulac Rehabilitation & Hcc

Unfortunately, we didn't have any favorable things to say about this facility's overall grade or its category grades. Nevertheless, with a grade of D in this area, it still performed relatively badly. Facilities that receive this type of grade in this category likely don't provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other facilities offer. One of the factors we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccines. Candidly, we were a bit concerned this facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to a relatively low 40 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this place actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.04 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. Nursing ratings are largely tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. Many consider these statistics to be reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Among this facility's alarming category grades was an F for its inspection grade. More often than not, this means we found some red flags on the facility's inspection reports. For nursing homes that received this bad of an inspection score, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This particular facility was assessed 9 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we found is that none of its deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they posed a risk to resident safety or health. Finally, we need to point out that this facility received large government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This generally signifies that a facility's poor performance has been an issue for several years.

The final area we assessed was short-term care. Sadly, it received an abysmal F for this category, which is a rock bottom score. Short-term care scores are meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes more highly-skilled nursing services. This means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. As you might expect, we discovered that this place offers far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than the typical nursing home. The last measure we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.