Laharpe Davier Health Care Center

In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also excelled in the category of nursing, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. When computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the amount of time nurses spend with residents as well as the level of licensure of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

This nursing home also received an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our categories. This is based on the place's inspection reports. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these can be relatively minor. While this place had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were serious based on CMS' deficiency scale. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

Turning to the next category, this facility also received a score of B for its short-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this category. Our short-term care grade is often employed to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 2.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Moving on to the last area, this nursing home was given a respectable long-term care rating. While this isn't nearly as elite as several of its other grades, this is really not the end of the world. In our long-term care rating, we focus on the sheer volume of care offered by a facility, along with some quality data points. Once we looked at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination records. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.