Loogootee Nursing Center

It should also be noted that this nursing home's nursing score outpaced its overall score. We gave it a B+ for its nursing score, which is one of our better scores. Our nursing grade analyzes the facility's nurse staffing levels. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility also performed well in inspections. It received one of our best grades in that category with an B+. Our inspection scores are tied to many items located in the a nursing home's inspections. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This place was assessed 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This indicates that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home also was awarded a strong score in our short-term care category. We gave this nursing home a better than average grade of B in this category. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to score a nursing home's rehabilitation services In order to have high-end rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

Moving on to the fourth category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D in the area of long-term care. This was the facility's worst category rating. Sadly, this grade pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is a very solid datapoint. To our surprise, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.