The 10 Worst Nursing Homes in Louisiana

  Worst Nursing Homes in Louisiana By City

Every city in Louisiana has its own set of challenges and standards when it comes to nursing home care. To help you find the information most relevant to your location, we've compiled city-specific rankings of the worst-rated nursing homes. Click on the links below to explore the detailed lists for each city.

Worst Nursing Homes in New Orleans

• Ferncrest Manor Living Center (364.667)
• Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2024-12-16)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2024-12-16)
• St Jude's Health and Wellness Center (312.333)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2025-01-17)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2025-01-10)
• Chateau De Notre Dame Community Care Center (312.167)
• Ensure each resident must receive and the facility must provide necessary behavioral health care and services. (2024-08-23)
• Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. (2024-07-12)
• Our Lady of Wisdom Community Care Center (195)
• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (2024-07-19)
• Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive. (2024-07-19)
• St Bernard Nursing and Rehab (77)
• Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. (2024-08-15)
• Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube. (2024-07-20)
• Lafon Nursing Facility of The Holy Family (70.167)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-10-24)
• Encode each resident?s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment. (2024-10-24)
• St Margaret's Daughters Home (68)
• Ensure the resident's doctor reviews the resident's care, writes, signs and dates progress notes and orders, at each required visit. (2024-10-12)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2024-10-12)
• Willow Wood at Woldenberg Village (30)
• Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. (2024-08-24)
• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (2024-08-24)
• Jo Ellen Smith Convalescent Center (22.667)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2024-09-27)
• Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections. (2024-03-31)
• Covenant Home (18)
• Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2024-12-22)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2024-12-22)

Worst Nursing Homes in Baton Rouge

• White Oak Post Acute Care (607.833)
• Ensure receptacles at patient bed locations and where general anesthesia is administered, are tested after initial installation, replacement or servicing. (2024-11-18)
• Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube. (2024-11-16)
• Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge (394)
• Employ sufficient staff with the appropriate competencies and skills sets to carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service, including a qualified dietician. (2024-11-07)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-11-07)
• Sage Rehabilitation Hospital Snf (186)
• Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. (2024-12-03)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-12-03)
• Center Point Health Care and Rehab (161.667)
• Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. (2024-12-06)
• Inspect, test, and maintain automatic sprinkler systems. (2024-08-09)
• Central Guest House Healthcare and Rehabilitation Ce (151.333)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2024-11-15)
• Encode each resident?s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment. (2024-11-15)
• St James Place Nursing Care Center (126.833)
• Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. (2024-10-31)
• Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. (2024-07-04)
• Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab (80.833)
• Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2024-05-24)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-05-24)
• Sterling Place Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center (80.667)
• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. (2024-10-09)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2024-09-13)
• The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge (77.667)
• Post nurse staffing information every day. (2024-07-17)
• Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances. (2024-06-27)
• Jefferson Manor Nursing and Rehab Ctr, LLC (75.333)
• Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential. (2024-09-06)
• Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. (2024-09-06)

Worst Nursing Homes in Shreveport

• Pierremont Healthcare Center (442.667)
• Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. (2024-11-22)
• Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality. (2024-11-22)
• The Guest House Skilled Nursing Rehabilitation (310.833)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2024-10-09)
• Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. (2024-10-09)
• Claiborne Healthcare Center (303.333)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2024-05-23)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2024-04-10)
• Highland Place Rehab and Nursing Center (144)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2024-12-31)
• Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. (2024-10-28)
• The Bradford Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation (71.333)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2024-11-07)
• Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable. (2024-11-07)
• Heritage Manor South (38.667)
• Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered. (2024-12-14)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2024-12-14)
• Live Oak (38)
• Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (2024-08-09)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2024-06-21)
• Booker T.Washington Skilled Nursing and Rehabilita (37.333)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-06-12)
• Encode each resident?s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment. (2024-04-20)
• Heritage Manor West (36.667)
• Encode each resident?s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment. (2025-01-31)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2025-01-31)
• Progressive Care Center (36)
• Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. (2024-09-06)
• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. (2024-05-24)

Worst Nursing Homes in Lafayette

• Mohawk Meadows (210)
• Ensure receptacles at patient bed locations and where general anesthesia is administered, are tested after initial installation, replacement or servicing. (2024-12-15)
• Provide properly protected cooking facilities. (2024-12-13)
• River Oaks Retirement Manor (166.5)
• Have generator or other power source capable of supplying service within 10 seconds. (2024-09-27)
• Ensure that special areas are constructed so that walls can resist fire for one hour or have an approved fire extinguishing system. (2024-09-27)
• Cornerstone at The Ranch (138)
• Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (2024-11-30)
• Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards. (2024-11-30)
• Camelot Rehabilitation at Magnolia Park (136.333)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-02-26)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2024-02-26)
• Knollwood Manor (117.5)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2022-09-08)
• Assure that each resident?s assessment is updated at least once every 3 months. (2022-09-08)
• Amelia Manor Nursing Home (63.333)
• Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. (2024-09-20)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-06-21)
• Majestic Care of Lafayette (62)
• Follow proper procedures when the automatic sprinkler systems was out of service for more than 10 hours. (2024-11-22)
• Follow proper procedures when the fire alarm was out of service for more than 4 hours. (2024-11-22)
• Courtyard Manor Nurse Care Center and Assisted Liv (50.667)
• Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. (2024-11-18)
• Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. (2024-11-18)
• Maison De Lafayette (50.667)
• Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice. (2024-07-19)
• Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. (2024-07-19)
• Creasy Springs Health Campus (48.667)
• Meet requirements for the installation and maintenance of electrical systems. (2024-01-26)
• Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. (2024-01-15)

Worst Nursing Homes in Lake Charles

• Resthaven Nursing and Rehab Center, LLC (188.667)
• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. (2024-09-17)
• Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube. (2024-09-17)
• Rosewood Nursing Center (87.333)
• Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. (2024-12-12)
• Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. (2024-12-12)
• Calcasieu Community Care Center (78)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-11-18)
• Allow residents to self-administer drugs if determined clinically appropriate. (2024-11-18)
• Grand Cove Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (45.333)
• Assess the resident completely in a timely manner when first admitted, and then periodically, at least every 12 months. (2024-06-28)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-06-28)
• Landmark of Lake Charles (36.333)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-10-11)
• Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed. (2024-10-11)
• Lake Charles Care Center (34.667)
• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. (2024-06-14)
• Ensure that feeding tubes are not used unless there is a medical reason and the resident agrees; and provide appropriate care for a resident with a feeding tube. (2024-06-14)
• The Gardens and Guardian (26)
• Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive. (2024-08-24)
• Encode each resident?s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment. (2024-08-24)

  Related Lists and Resources

While it's important to be aware of the lowest-rated facilities, we also provide resources to help you find the best care available. Check out our other lists to find top-rated nursing homes and facilities that excel in specific areas.

• Best Nursing Homes in Louisiana
• Analysis of Nursing Homes in Louisiana

  Making Informed Decisions

Understanding our rankings and how they are derived can empower you to make better choices for your loved ones. Remember, a low rating in one area doesn't necessarily mean a facility is entirely unsuitable; it's a starting point for further investigation.

  Tips for Evaluating Nursing Homes in Louisiana:

• Schedule visits to potential facilities
• Speak with staff and residents
• Review recent inspection reports
• Consider the specific needs of your loved one

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  More Resources for Families

Navigating the world of nursing home care can be overwhelming. Here are some resources to help you make the best decisions for your family:

• The Role of Family in Nursing Home Care
• Navigating Medicaid for Nursing Home Care
• How to Handle a Nursing Home Discharge
• Understanding Nursing Home Ratings and What They Mean
• Questions to Ask During a Nursing Home Visit

  How We Compile Nursing Home Ratings in Louisiana

Every month, we rank all of the skilled nursing facilities in Louisiana. These rankings are based on data provided by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid measures ("CMS"), including the CMS 5-Star Rating System and the Health Inspection Scores. The list of the Worst Skilled Nursing Facilities in Louisiana is based on the weighted overall health inspection score which is a composite of CMS's three most recent skilled nursing home inspection scores weighted to give the most recent inspection more importance.

The CMS 5-Star Rating System rates skilled nursing facilities from one to five stars, with one star being the lowest and five stars being the highest. The rating system also rates Louisiana nursing homes across five different dimensions including overall rating, health inspection rating, quality measures rating, overall staffing rating, and RN staffing rating (RN is an acronym for Registered Nurse).

In addition to the 5-Star Rating System, CMS provides numerical metrics that summarize:

• Health Inspection Domain. The health inspection rating is based on the three most recent standard surveys for each nursing home, results from any complaint investigations during the most recent three-year period, and any repeat revisits needed to verify that required corrections have brought the facility back into compliance. CMS calculates a weighted deficiency score based on points assigned to health deficiencies identified in each active provider’s current health inspection survey and the two prior surveys (including revisits), as well as deficiency findings from the most recent three years of complaint investigations. More recent surveys are weighted more heavily than older surveys: the most recent period (cycle 1) is assigned a weighting factor of 1/2, the previous period (cycle 2) has a weighting factor of 1/3, and the second prior survey (cycle 3) has a weighting factor of 1/6. The weighted time period scores are then summed to create the survey score for each facility.
• Staffing Domain. Using multiple reporting methods, CMS calculates the amount of time that the nursing staff spends with residents. This is measured across multiple dimensions, one each for three different levels of nursing, including Registered Nurses (“RNs”), Licensed Practical Nurses (“LPNs”), and Certified Nursing Assistants (“CNAs”), plus one metric that totals all contributions. These metrics are expressed in hours per resident per day. CMS also provides state-level and national averages for the metrics to allow for additional comparisons.
• Quality Measures Domain. A set of quality measures (QMs) has been developed from MDS-based indicators to describe the quality of care provided in nursing homes. These measures address a broad range of functioning and health status in multiple care areas. The facility rating for the QM domain is based on performance on a subset of 11 (out of 18) of the QMs. Ratings for the QM domain are calculated using the three most recent quarters for which data are available. This time period specification was selected to increase the number of assessments available for calculating the QM rating, increasing the stability of estimates and reducing the number of facilities that do not have enough data to report QM ratings.
• Abuse Flag. Abuse is always a concern in skilled nursing facilities. To highlight the issue, CMS has extracted this feature as its own flag. Facilities with an actual abuse event or where the potential for abuse has been shown for the past two years are flagged. The Health Inspection Score is capped at 2-stars for nursing homes that have been flagged for abuse.

Skilled nursing facilities that are new and do not have at least two surveys completed are not rated by CMS. These facilities may have health inspection scores that can be used to evaluate the facility.

One complication in Louisiana nursing home inspections is the COVID-19 pandemic. Although inspections should be performed every 12 months, COVID has decreased this frequency. While CMS admits that only in “rare cases” do these inspections increase to 15 months, our analysis suggests that this time frame may be even longer. This report shows that the time between inspections is now just under 500 days (more than sixteen months). There are now hundreds of skilled nursing homes in the United States that have not been inspected in more than 24 months. This list shows the skilled nursing homes with the longest period since being inspected. According to the CMS data, these homes have not been inspected since 2018!