Southwest Louisiana War Veterans Home

On top of being an elite nursing home overall, this facility excelled in our inspections category, where it received an A+. Very few nursing homes fared this well in this category. Our inspection scores are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. While this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its high-end achievements in other areas, we awarded this nursing home a score of A- for our long-term care rating. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to ensure patients are kept in good health. This facility clearly fared favorably enough in these measures to receive an impressive score in this category.

This nursing home received an impressive short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher grades in that category with a score of B+. With our short-term care score, we strive to craft a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess the facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. It does not appear that this facility submitted information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

Switching gears to our fourth category, this facility also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of B+ for this category. This topped off a very strong report card. Nursing ratings are mostly associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home averages 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.