Northeast La War Veterans Home

On top of performing well overall, this nursing home earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Consequently, it received one of our best scores in that area with a grade of A+. Inspection grades are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that score well in this category have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its impressive accomplishments in other areas, we gave this facility a grade of A- for its long-term care grade. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. Clearly we were content with what we found here in this area.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Our nursing rating analyzes the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses as well as the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home provides 0 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 avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the last category we looked at, this facility received an impressive grade grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this grade, the nursing home completed a very impressive report card. In our short-term care grade, we attempt to craft a sound measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. We weren't able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.