Lagrange Health and Rehab

Lagrange Health and Rehab is one of a mere three available nursing homes located in Lagrange, Georgia. This is a well below average nursing home, with an overall grade of D. In our view, we would struggle to recommend this nursing home. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this place's category grades, we will discuss inspections in the next section.

Although we gave this place a poor overall grade, we actually awarded it a somewhat respectable score in the category of inspections, where we gave it a B-. This was certainly better than its other categories. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

We also awarded this facility a grade of B- for our nursing rating. In determining a nursing home's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these areas as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

We also gave this facility a middle of the pack score in the category of short-term care, where it received a B-. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is often a useful measure of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this place provided fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to return home from the facility. It fared much better in this area with 71.9 percent of its residents returning home. Unfortunately, at most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

Our last category is long-term care, in which we gave this facility a B- in this category. Long-term care grades are generally used to score a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a skilled nursing facility. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 96.63866 percent of its patients. Unfortunately, this nursing home's hospitalization rate was less impressive. Here we found that this facility had 2.49 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.