New Iberia Manor South

New Iberia Manor South is located in New Iberia, Louisiana. With an overall score of B+, this looks like a very good nursing home. If you take a look at the other options in New Iberia, we are confident you will find this facility to be a better option than most nursing homes in the city. Fortunately, this place did not have any poor grades in any of the major categories. Additional information about these categories is available below.

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this area tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report 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.

Among this facility's other strengths is its top-shelf long-term care score. It received one of our strongest grades in that area, with a score of A. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to live on a permanent basis. On top of offering well above average levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 99.65035 percent of its residents. This percentage is also significantly higher than most nursing homes. The last statistic we looked at is the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 1.84 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is close to average in this area.

This facility's next best area is its short-term care grade, where it received a grade of B-. In our short-term care score, we strive to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final measure we assessed in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It fared well in this metric with 56.2 percent of its residents returning home. This proved to be a big boost to its grade in this category.

The next category we graded is this nursing home's worst category. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it an acceptable grade of B- for our nursing category. Our nursing grade includes several factors, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.2 hours per resident per day. This is well above average. Finally, we also looked at a few quality measures in calculating our nursing scores. This nursing home was above average in most of these data points, with good marks for minimizing its patients' pressure ulcers and major falls. These are usually good indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.