Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home located in Loogootee, Indiana. This turns out to be an A rated facility. This facility was given one of the highest grades that we offer. A grade of this caliber requires top-notch marks across the board. This is just about as good of a facility as you're going to find. If you look below, you will see this nursing home's category scores, which appear to be equally impressive as its overall score.
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Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Individual
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Dentistry
- Occupational Therapy
- Podiatry
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Blood Administration
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Awards
Registered Staff Hours
Nurse Quality
In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a protocol of moving residents even once per day.
Facility Inspections
Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
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Long-term Care Quality
This nursing home also fared very well in the area of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A. Only a select group of nursing homes received a better grade in this category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping patients healthy. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.
Short-term Care Quality
In the final category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our short-term care rating. This completed a very strong profile. In determining our short-term care ratings, we assess a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is typically a meaningful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this facility. We found that 5.3 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 0% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 3.61% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who have experienced a fall which caused severe injury. We use this statistic in computing nursing scores.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 1.54% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percentage of residents who sustained a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely linked to poor nursing care. Better hygiene protocols minimizes the number of UTI's sustained by residents in a nursing home. Keep in mind that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have varying reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 20.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications play an important role in caring for many residents, it is important to confirm these medications are being used appropriately. In some cases, increased usage of these drugs may suggest that a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 12.35% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 8.75% of Patients
This is the percent of patients showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 93.24% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 10.39% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the deterioration of a patient's health.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 8.2% of Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents that retained mobility levels. Some experts would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 0.01 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is key to preserving the physical well-being of residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 8.2% of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 7.73% of Patients
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, 97.91% of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Nearby Hospitals
- Daviess Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 13.4 miles away1314 E Walnut St Washington Indiana 47501Government - Local(812) 254-2760
- Memorial Hospital and Health Care CenterAcute Care Hospitals 19.09 miles away800 W 9th St Jasper Indiana 47546Voluntary non-profit - Church(812) 996-2345
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita - Daviess County Dialysis13.31 miles away310 Ne 14th Street Washington Indiana 47501Dialysis Stations: 10 (812) 254-9950
- Davita - Jasper Dialysis19.21 miles away671 3 Rd Ave Suite A Jasper Indiana 47546CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (812) 482-1791