The Lafayette-Redeemer

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home also received an A+ inspection score. This is based on the facility's recent government inspections. An A+ in this area is one of the best complements we can offer a facility. Arguably the most critical factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this area most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This place received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This indicates that CMS didn't consider any of these deficiencies to create an immediate risk to patient health or safety. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe made us feel better about this inspection report.

Additionally, this facility also was given favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. In fact, we gave them one of our higher scores in that area, with a grade of B+. In crafting our short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.

This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. When determining our nursing ratings, we analyze both the number of hours nurses spend with residents and the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The last category we looked at is long-term care, which ended up being a weak link for this facility. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in the area of long-term care, leaving this as the facility's weakest area. We would nevertheless recommend that you consider all of a nursing home's grades. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for patient care and it may indicate that the nursing home is not as well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination records. Frankly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 86.41304 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which happens to be quite a bit lower than what we were hoping for. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This is its best feature in this category.