Loogootee Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center

In addition to receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home received an A+ for nursing. Our nursing rating is primarily tied to the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 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 nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

On the list of its many impressive scores, this nursing home received an excellent short-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A in that area. With our short-term care rating, we attempt to forge a meaningful barometer for rehabilitation services. In this process, we look at the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final item we assessed in this category is the number of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We found that 6.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

In addition, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless government inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our best grades in that category with an A-. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. The fact that the deficiencies were relatively minor made us feel better about this inspection report.

The final category we rated was long-term care. We gave this nursing home a solid grade in this category, with a grade of C. While this isn't as high as many of its other grades, it is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In determining our long-term care grades, we size up the personal care received by the facility's residents. One of the factors we considered after nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.95918 percent of its patients. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.