Zachary Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Zachary Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an average-sized nursing home located in Zachary, Louisiana. This nursing home received an overall grade of B-, which is a solid grade. This facility seems to have some things working in its favor. One of the major highlights of this facility's report card is its stellar inspection score, which we will address in the next paragraph.

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the category of inspections, where it received a grade of A+. Few facilities performed better in this category. Our inspection grades are based on items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this category typically have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. 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. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

We also gave this facility a strong grade in long-term care. This nursing home received a grade of B+ in this area, which happens to be one of our more impressive scores. Facilities that receive this type of score in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. This facility also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 1.41 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.

This facility's next highest category is its short-term care score, where it was given a C. In our short-term care rating, we seek to create a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we assess a facility's offerings of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of facilities in the nation with 50.5 percent of its patients returning home. This is a higher rate than most facilities.

Switching gears to the next area, this facility did not fare very well. With an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is this nursing home's poorest area. Our nursing score is based on quite a few data points, most of which are associated with quantities of nurse staffing. This particular nursing home averaged a meager 3.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This number is quite a bit below average. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this metric.