Pelican Pointe Healthcare and Rehabilitation
405 Milton Road, Maurice LA 70555 · (337) 893-4449 · 96.33% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Pelican Pointe Healthcare and Rehabilitation is an average-sized non-profit nursing home in Maurice, Louisiana. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this looks like a solid nursing home. You could certainly do worse than this facility. One of the major highlights of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection reports, which we will address in the next section.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 120 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
To go along with its decent overall grade, we gave this nursing home an A+ for our inspections rating. This is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.
Long-term Care Quality
We also gave this facility an impressive grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B+ in this category, which happens to be one of our more impressive scores. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 99.756096 percent of its patients, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home does not roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this nursing home had 2.2 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to the area of short-term care, this nursing home was given a grade of just D in this area. With our short-term care grade, we try to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation. In doing so, we look at the facility's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Unfortunately, this nursing home was below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. This nursing home a bit in this area as well, with just 45.8 percent of its patients returning home.
Nurse Quality
The next area we looked at was nursing, ended up being this nursing home's worst area. We gave this facility a D in that area. This is one of just a couple of weak points of a strong profile. There are many criteria included in this grade. Many of the subcategories are tied to staffing levels. This nursing home averages 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. On top of its below average nursing hour totals, this place also received suboptimal marks in some of the quality-based metrics we considered in computing our nursing scores. We found that more of this facility's residents suffered falls which led to major injury. We believe that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This statistic contributed to this facility receiving a terrible nursing score.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Pelican Pointe Healthcare and Rehabilitation Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better