Northwest Louisiana Veterans Home

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home has received near flawless inspections in recent years. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Perhaps the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher grades in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Unfortunately, it does not appear that we have information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among this nursing home's other achievements is its first-rate long-term care score. We gave them one of our best scores in that area, with a score of A-. Nursing homes that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. Overall this looks like a solid option in terms of its long-term care rating.

In addition, this facility also received favorable nursing grades this year. In fact, we awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing grades are tied to nurse staffing levels. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next category we graded was short-term care, which ended up being a weak spot for this nursing home. We awarded this nursing home a D for our short-term care category, leaving this as the facility's least impressive category grade. We'd nevertheless suggest that you consider all of a nursing home's grades. Our short-term care ratings are presumably more critical for those requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. It appears that this facility was subpar in multiple staffing metrics we assessed. It offered fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. This definitely wasn't a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 2.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. At most nursing homes, around half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.