Nhc Healthcare, Desloge

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this place excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A-. Few nursing homes performed better in that category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One of those factors is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively minor. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe. This indicates that CMS 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.

Another quality feature for this nursing home is that it was awarded a very positive long-term care grade. Indeed, this ended up being its second best category grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home a B+. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 93.181816 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is slightly less than we expected but still a decent percentage. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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. In determining a facility's nursing grade, we look at the amount of time nurses are seeing residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we assessed was short-term care. We gave this facility one of our more favorable scores in this category, with a grade of B. This nursing home ended up being very solid across the board. Short-term care grades are generally employed to assess a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. To provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally must have better levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents that returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.