Tangi Pines Nursing Center

Tangi Pines Nursing Center is located in Amite, Louisiana. We awarded it an overall grade of C, which is a middle of the pack score. Based on our analysis, this place ought to meet the needs of many people. The best part of this facility's report card was its remarkable inspection grade. We discuss inspections in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a respectable facility overall, this facility really excelled in the category of inspections, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

This nursing home also excelled in the category of long-term care, where we gave it a score of A-. Few facilities performed more favorably in this area. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary goal is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 78.21429 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be somewhat below what we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.14 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had less hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a score of D. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we look at the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients and the level of skill of those nurses. This nursing home averages 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day, which is below the national average. To go along with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this facility had poor scores in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. For starters, we looked at the percent of residents experiencing falls which led to serious injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that so many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing grade.

Turning to our next category, this facility didn't fare very well. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this was this facility's poorest area. In our short-term care rating, we attempt to craft a fair gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we analyze a facility's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Given its weak rating in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home offered far fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 23.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.