Sage Rehabilitation Hospital - Inpatient Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Facility

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the area of nursing. We gave it an A+ for that category, which is one of our highest scores. In calculating our nursing scores, we look at both staffing levels and the skill levels of those nurses. This facility provided 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 Louisiana in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of turning patients more frequently.

Turning to the area of short-term care, we awarded this facility a grade of A- in that area. With our short-term care category, we endeavor to craft a fair barometer for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze a nursing home's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who returned home from this nursing home. We found that 4.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The third area we looked at is long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a C. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. It doesn't appear that this facility provided vaccination data. Finally, this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning our last category of inspections, this nursing home received a horrible grade. Unfortunately, with an F in the inspection category, this facility's overall grade was pulled down significantly. With places that received this bad of an inspection rating, we recommend scrutinizing the severe deficiencies on its inspection report. This facility had 2 deficiencies by CMS. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate that they created a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we need to point out that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines recently totaling more than $100,000. This generally indicates that a nursing home's poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.