Lagrange Health and Rehab

Although we gave this facility a horrible overall score, we gave it an A for our inspections score. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall grade. 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. It is typically best to avoid places that had too many deficiencies. While this nursing home had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

Tragically, this facility received an F for its short-term care grade. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, in addition to other types of therapy. Based on its abysmal score in this category, we were not shocked to find that this nursing home provides significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The third area we analyzed was long-term care. This facility's received an unfortunate long-term care grade where it was given a lowly F. When nursing homes receive this type of score in this category it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the facility is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After assessing the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 91.33574 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is slightly less than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best score in this category.

Moving on to our final area, this nursing home really did not perform very well here either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is just about as as uninspiring as it gets. In calculating a nursing home's nursing grade, we look at the number of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. This facility also had abysmal scores in some of the quality-based measures to go along with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents sustaining pressure ulcers and we were quite disappointed. This facility was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this metric.