Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
1338 North Cutting Avenue,
Jennings LA 70546
58.41% estimated occupancy 1
Jeff Davis Living Center is an average-sized facility located in Jennings, Louisiana. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of C, which is a good rating. You can certainly do worse than this nursing home. The best part of this nursing home's profile is its remarkable inspection grade. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.
The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable government inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in that category, with an A+. This is a notably better grade than the place's overall score, which was decent but certainly not elite. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Places with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This nursing home was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
This facility also received high marks in the area of long-term care, with a very impressive grade of A- in this category. For residents seeking a permanent residence as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home provided the vaccine to 93.77593 percent of its patients. This is a few points below what we expected but still a respectable figure. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this place had 2.47 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
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Next we wanted to quickly point out one of this facility's major weaknesses. In the area of nursing care, we gave this nursing home a lowly grade of F. We weighed the qualifications of nurses working for the nursing home, in addition to the number of hours the nurses were with patients, in computing our rating in this category. This nursing home provides 2.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. To go along with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this nursing home also did not perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This could be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these scores pulled down this nursing home's nursing grade significantly.
This nursing home's weakest area was short-term care, which is the final category we analyzed. We gave it a lowly F for this category. Even with a few respectable grades in other categories, this score is nevertheless concerning so we wanted to make sure you are aware. Our short-term care scores are crucial for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last item we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 41.9 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics sunk this facility's short-term care score.
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 9.91% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by staying in one position for too long.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 3.5% of Patients had Serious Falls
This figure measures the percentage of long-term stay patients who had falls which caused severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing scores.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 2.75% of Patients had UTIs
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients who have experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric could be skewed for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 15.82% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These drugs are sometimes used to treat a variety of conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 22.49% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric gauges the percentage of long-term stay patients which were administered antianxiety medication. These medications are commonly used to treat residents experiencing anxiety and depression.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 1.57% of Patients
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents showing symptoms of depression.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 89.69% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term care residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for nursing home patients, making these vaccines critical to patient well-being.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 17.57% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's well-being.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 16.33% Percentage of Residents
This indicates the percent of residents that retained mobility levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 1.86 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This tells you the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of care.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 16.33 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of patients.
In Jeff Davis Living Center, 12.99 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. There is generally a correlation between having fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of rehabilitation.
