The Olive Branch Senior Care Center

The Olive Branch Senior Care Center is a large facility in Tallulah, Louisiana. With an overall rating of C, this is a solid nursing home. This place seems to have some things working in its favor. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's profile is its exemplary inspection score, which you can find in the next paragraph.

While this facility's overall grade was not bad, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category, which is one of our best scores. Our inspection ratings are based on datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Based on this, we still had favorable view of this nursing home's inspections.

This facility also was given an impressive long-term care score. In fact, we gave them a grade of B in that area, which is one of our better. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is typically a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. On top of assessing the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.62577 percent of its residents, which is higher than the average nursing home. The last statistic we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this facility had 2.3 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an impressive grade of D. Our nursing score includes several subcategories, but the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. In addition to its weak nursing hours, this nursing home received suboptimal scores in many of the quality-based metrics we considered in determining our nursing scores. We found that more of this facility's residents experienced falls which led to major injury.

The last category we graded was short-term care, which turned out to be this nursing home's worst area. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is clearly a major disappointment. In calculating our short-term care grades, we analyze the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This area is considered to be a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. Considering its grade in this category, we weren't surprised to find that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its patients based on the data we assessed. The last measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 27.5 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this nursing home's short-term care grade.