Twin Oaks Nursing Home

Twin Oaks Nursing Home is the sole facility located in La Place, Louisiana. With an overall rating of C, this is likely a decent nursing home. Based on our ratings, this facility has some redeeming qualities. The best part of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection reports. Inspection reports are discussed in the next section.

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are quite insignificant. 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 had favorable view of this facility's inspections.

Another one of this facility's higher category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a B. For long-term care residents, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. This nursing home's vaccination data weren't as strong as its nursing hours. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to just 45.232273 percent of its patients. We'd like to see some improvement herein this statistic in the future. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. We found that this place had 2.51 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

The third category we looked at is short-term care, where this facility was given a C in this category. In determining our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. This score is considered to be a solid assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the typical facility. The hope is that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the nation with 51.9 percent of its patients returning home.

This facility's least impressive area is nursing, which is the last category we scored. We gave it an abysmal F for this category. Even with multiple acceptable grades in other areas, this score is nevertheless of a concern so we wanted to point it out. Our nursing rating looks at the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. In this nursing home's case, quantity of care does not appear to be the problem. According to its CMS reports, this facility provided an average of 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient per day, which was above the national average. Despite performing well in terms of nursing hours, this nursing home did not fare as well in the quality-based metrics we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility was above the national average in both of these statistics.