Heritage Manor of Bossier

In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home fared even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the facility's recent government inspections. We awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our best grades. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category typically have few severe deficiencies. Amazingly, this was one of the few nursing homes in the country that had no deficiencies whatsoever on its inspection report. This is very impressive. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among the reasons we graded this facility so well is that it received a strong long-term care grade. In fact, long-term care turned out to be its second most favorable category grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 97.75281 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of B- in this category is by no means a bad score. Our nursing grade features many factors. The most important factor is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This place provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident daily. This is a somewhat concerning figure as it is well below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this place actually fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.

The last category we graded was short-term care. In this category, we awarded this nursing home an acceptable grade of C. This proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. Our short-term care grades are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other variations of therapy. It does not look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.