Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center
313 Poplar St, Loogootee IN 47553 · (812) 295-4433 · 39.19% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center is a small nursing home in Loogootee, Indiana. Featuring an overall score of B+, this facility should work for most prospective residents. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this facility. This facility's strong report card was highlighted by its inspection score, which you can find in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 62 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we especially wanted to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave it an impressive grade of A in this category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were severe based on CMS' scale. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it was given a favorable short-term care grade. Indeed, short-term care turned out to be its second highest category score. In that area, we gave this facility a score of A-. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to forge a valuable barometer for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. The final statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who ultimately returned home from the facility. This place performed as well as just about any facility in Indiana in this area with 59 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. We assessed the qualifications of nurses at the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses spent with residents, in determining our rating in this area. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is much more care than what is provided by most facilities. Finally, this facility also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. For example, in terms of the number of its residents suffering from pressure ulcers, this place performed better than the national average. This is generally a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly turning residents to avoid bed sores.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we rated is long-term care, in which this facility was awarded a grade of C. This turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. This is still not a major area of concern. In determining our long-term care grades, we scrutinize the personal care offered to a nursing home's residents. After assessing the very respectable amount of nursing hours provided by this nursing home, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 96.7033 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which appears to be higher than the majority of nursing homes. The last statistic we assessed was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Although it had 2.21 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, its risk adjusted score was not too far off the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have experienced a fall resulting in severe injury. We use this statistic in computing our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who had a urinary tract infection. While a higher rate of these infections could reflect poorly on a facility's hygiene protocols, it can be problematic to compare between nursing homes due to nursing homes having reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percent of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are prescribed to residents experiencing depression or anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of residents showing signs of depression. High levels of depression could reveal a less hospitable environment.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percent of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and eating. Some would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a resident's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who maintained mobility. Many in the industry would argue that mobility is important for residents' physical and mental health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is critical to the physical health of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term care residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better