Lafayette Extended Care

In addition to being a strong facility overall, it also received A+ health inspections recently. Its inspections are virtually perfect. Our inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another quality feature for this facility is that it received an above average long-term care score. In fact, this proved to be its second best category grade. In this category, we awarded this facility a B+. For residents in need of a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 63.88889 percent of its residents, which is somewhat lower than we were hoping for. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, we were pleased to find nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. The nursing score includes a variety of datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the amount of time nurses spent with patients. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The final area we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home received a better than average short-term care grade in our assessment, with a B-. While this isn't nearly as good as a few of its other grades, this is nevertheless an acceptable score in this area. In crafting these short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We weren't able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.