Powerback Rehabilitation Lafayette

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. Our nursing rating is primarily associated with a facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving a resident at least once a day.

This nursing home also received an A+ short-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+ category scores. Our short-term care grades are presumably more meaningful for individuals requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This includes not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home earned a B for its inspections score. This is an above average grade in this area. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category generally have very few severe deficiencies. 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. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

The next category we assessed was long-term care, which turned out to be this facility's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in that category. Nevertheless, you shouldn't judge this facility based solely on a single category, since it earned many impressive scores in other categories. Facilities that don't fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in some of the areas of routine medical care we assessed. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination records. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this nursing home submitted data regarding vaccinations. To our surprise, this facility was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.