S C C of Shreveport Manor Rehabilitation Center

One of the reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an impressive inspection rating. Inspections turned out to be its best category grade. In that area, we gave it an A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. 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.

This nursing home fared well in the area of long-term care. As a result, we gave it a grade of A for that area, which is one of our better grades. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. In addition to assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 100 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life or death health condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home does not leave its residents vulnerable. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning to the category of nursing care, this facility didn't perform quite as well in this area as some of the categories discussed above. Nevertheless, a grade of C in this category is by no means a bad score. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is far below average. Finally, nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the most impressive total nursing hours per resident, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

The last area we scored was short-term care, which was this facility's least impressive category. We awarded this facility a D in this category. Of course, this category hurt the nursing home's overall profile a bit. Our short-term care grade is often used to score a facility's rehabilitation services. In order to have quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. It appears that this place was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the metrics we looked at. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these poor metrics sunk this nursing home's short-term care score.