Sabine Retirement and Rehab Center

Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata

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965 Fisher Road,
Many LA 71449

(318) 590-0200

66.55% estimated occupancy ¹

With an address in Many, Louisiana, Sabine Retirement and Rehab Center is one of just a couple facilities in the area. This facility was awarded an overall grade of B, which is a quality grade. Based on our assessment, this nursing home looks like a solid choice for most people. This facility's impressive profile was highlighted by its inspection grade, which you can find in the next paragraph.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Partnership

Specialized Services

Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling

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Facility Inspections

To pair with its favorable overall score, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for the area of inspections. Our inspection grades are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this category tend to have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Unfortunately, we weren't able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home truly excelled in the area of long-term care, where it received a grade of A+. Very few nursing homes performed more favorably in this category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Nurse Quality

Turning to the area of nursing care, this was not one of this facility's strong suits. We awarded it a grade of D in this category. Clearly, this facility performed much better in the categories discussed above. When computing our nursing ratings, we factor in both nursing hours and the levels of licensure of the nurses. This nursing home offered just 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is well below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these statistics to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home's least impressive area is short-term care, which is the last category we analyzed. For this category, we gave this facility a D. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is considered to be a solid measure of a facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The final item we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.7 percent of its residents returning home. This was well below the national average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Sabine Retirement and Rehab Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Sabine Retirement and Rehab Center, 9.76% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for too long.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Sabine Retirement and Rehab Center, 3.46% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in serious injury are considered by many experts to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by lower levels of patient supervision.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Sabine Retirement and Rehab Center, 2.79% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely linked to nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing can minimize the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Sabine Retirement and Rehab Center, 16.28% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This metric indicates the percentage of long-term stay residents which were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. High levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically indicated. Nevertheless, some nursing homes need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of residents suffering from dementia.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Sabine Retirement and Rehab Center, 22.6% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic measures the percent of long-term residents receiving antianxiety drugs.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Sabine Retirement and Rehab Center, 1.48% of Patients

Measures the percent of long-term care patients who are showing depressive symptoms. Some experts would argue that this is a measure of resident quality of life.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Sabine Retirement and Rehab Center, 89.54% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Sabine Retirement and Rehab Center, 17.84% Percentage of Patients

This indicates the percent of residents that needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living could be a sign of the deterioration of a resident's health.