The Oaks of Houma is one of a mere two available nursing homes located in Houma, Louisiana. We awarded this nursing home an overall grade of C. A score of this caliber requires some solid scores. Based on our analysis, this nursing home has some redeeming qualities. The best part of this nursing home's report card is its exemplary inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
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The Oaks of Houma
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Audiology
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Aquatic Therapy
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Facility Inspections
While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really fared well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively minor. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This indicates that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate risk to patient health or safety. A couple of minor deficiencies shouldn't lead you to cross a nursing home off your list.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we also wanted to point out that this nursing home was awarded favorable long-term care marks this year. We awarded them one of our higher grades in this category, with a grade of B. This turned out to be the facility's second highest grade. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. On top of looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 90.32258 percent of its residents, which is a few points below what we anticipated. Clearly, this facility 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 an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home earned a very good nursing rating this year as well. It received one of our higher grades in that category with a score of F. In determining a facility's nursing score, we consider the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the levels of training of the nurses. This facility provided only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing scores. This nursing home fared well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we analyzed is short-term care. We gave it a lowly F in this category, which is a bottom of the barrel score. This is obviously a significant concern. In our short-term care score, we strive to create a sound measure for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess the facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. With its abysmal grade in this area, we weren't surprised to learn that this nursing home offered far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.4 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
The Oaks of Houma Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In The Oaks of Houma, 10% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In The Oaks of Houma, 3.48% of Patients had Serious Falls
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients that have experienced falls leading to major injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In The Oaks of Houma, 2.69% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are often the result of worse hygiene protocols. Better hygiene protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In The Oaks of Houma, 16.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In The Oaks of Houma, 22.29% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In The Oaks of Houma, 1.51% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In The Oaks of Houma, 85.51% of Patients
This is the percentage of patients who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In The Oaks of Houma, 19.03% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In The Oaks of Houma, 13.75% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents that retained mobility levels. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is critical to patients mental and physical health.
Hospitalizations
In The Oaks of Houma, 2.4 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In The Oaks of Houma, 13.75 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In The Oaks of Houma, 13.45 Percentage of Patients
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In The Oaks of Houma, 67.8% Percentage of Resident
This is the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Terrebonne General Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.64 miles away8166 Main Street Houma Louisiana 70360Government - Hospital District or Authority(985) 873-4141
- Leonard J Chabert Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.09 miles away1978 Industrial Blvd Houma Louisiana 70363Voluntary non-profit - Other(985) 873-2200
- Ochsner St Anne General HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 13.32 miles away4608 Highway 1 Raceland Louisiana 70394Voluntary non-profit - Private(985) 537-8377
- Thibodaux Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 14 miles away602 N Acadia Road Thibodaux Louisiana 70301Government - Hospital District or Authority(985) 447-5500
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmcna - Houma1.22 miles away800 Point St Houma Louisiana 70360Dialysis Stations: 25 (985) 868-0989
- Fkc - Houma Home Program1.74 miles away143 War Horse Place Houma Louisiana 70360Dialysis Stations: 1 (985) 851-6634
- Fmcna - North Houma Dialysis1.74 miles away144 War Horse Pl Houma Louisiana 70360Dialysis Stations: 17 (985) 876-6304
- Fkc - East Houma2.16 miles away707 Grand Caillou Rd Houma Louisiana 70363Dialysis Stations: 13 (985) 262-4143
- Raceland Dialysis Ctr13.38 miles away4601 Highway 1 Raceland Louisiana 70394Dialysis Stations: 8 (985) 537-6962
- Fmcna - Thibodaux13.92 miles away694 S Acadia Rd Thibodaux Louisiana 70301CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (985) 448-3540
- Fkc - North Thibodaux16.18 miles away108 Westover Drive Thibodaux Louisiana 70301Dialysis Stations: 13 (985) 446-1389