Lafayette Manor

While this nursing home's overall grade was as bad as it gets, it actually didn't perform terribly in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B- for that category, which is one of our better scores. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be quite minor. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, CMS flagged this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. This is not what you want to see. We advise you to direct your search elsewhere.

Remarkably, we gave this nursing home a grade of B- for its short-term care grade, which is not too bad of a score. Short-term care scores are based on a facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast range of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The more important thing is determining what effect this had on the quality of care. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below average.

Remarkably, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C for our nursing rating, which isn't a bad grade. We looked at the levels of nurses working for the facility, as well as the quantity of time those nurses spent with patients, in computing our score in this category. This particular facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This figure is significantly below average. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The next category we looked at was long-term care, in which this facility received a poor score in this category as well. Sadly, it received an F for this area, which is obviously a major concern. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this nursing home gave the vaccine to a relatively low 80.7947 percent of its patients, which is somewhat alarming. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.