Lafayette Nursing Home

In addition to receiving a strong overall score, this place also earned first-rate inspections in recent years. We awarded them one of our best grades in this category, with an A. Inspection grades are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area tend to 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. This place received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so favorably is that it was given a very impressive long-term care score. In fact, long-term care ended up being its second best category score. In that category, we gave this facility a score of A. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. One of the statistics we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary deaths for the elderly population. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing score includes a number of datapoints. The most important factor is the number of hours nurses spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The last area we analyzed was short-term care. This facility was given a very good short-term care grade in our assessment, with a B-. While this is not quite as strong as many of its other scores, this is still an acceptable rating in that area. Short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled nursing services. This means a vast range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this facility provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually well below average.