Louisiana Extended Care Hospital Of Lafayette

Location & what’s nearby

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Nearest of each type, straight-line distance. Hospitals come from the CMS Hospital General Information registry; everything else from Overture Maps (public data). Hospital and park hours are typical — call ahead to confirm.

Quality measures — how residents actually fare

Quality-measure stars summarize outcomes CMS tracks from the assessments each home submits — avoidable hospitalizations and ER visits, falls with injury, pressure ulcers, unplanned weight loss, and long-term antipsychotic use. Because the underlying data is self-reported, weigh a high score against the independent inspection record. Long-stay = permanent residents; short-stay = rehab and post-hospital stays.

Short-stay rehab — if you are coming here from a hospital

Arriving from a hospital right now? Read the discharge guide → — your appeal rights, how to slow a rushed discharge, and what to ask about the numbers below.

77.1% of the Medicare patients who left this home got back to the community and stayed there for at least 31 days — CMS rates that better than the national rate. This is CMS’s risk-adjusted rate over 183 Medicare stays in Oct 2022–Sep 2024, and CMS’s own comparison — not ours.

Met the expected recovery: 51.6% of this home’s Medicare short-stay residents left it at or above the ability to care for themselves and move around that CMS predicted for them, across 122 stays in Oct 2024–Sep 2025. The median of the 11,061 homes CMS publishes this for is 56.6%. Read it beside the getting-home figure, not instead of it: unlike the two measures above, CMS makes no better-or-worse call on this one and publishes no confidence interval for it, so this is a comparison and not a verdict — but it is the short-stay measure that separates homes most, and the one to ask about.

Therapy staffing: this home’s payroll records show 0.63 therapist hours per resident per day in 2026Q1 — more than 89% of the 13,892 homes that report any therapy hours at all.

Weekend therapy: weekend therapy hours are 8% of this home’s weekday level — it runs some therapy at the weekend, at a lower level than on weekdays. The median home that reports therapy runs 13% — weekday-focused therapy is the industry norm, not a shortfall. But recovery does not pause on a Saturday: ask what the weekend actually looks like here.

This section is about rehab stays, not living here. Most of this page — the stars, the quality measures, the inspection record — describes the home the way a permanent resident experiences it. These figures describe the short Medicare stay after a hospital discharge: a hip, a stroke, a bad infection, six weeks and home. They are different residents, different staff, often a different wing. Therapy hours are per resident in the building, not per rehab patient — the count includes every long-stay resident, and they mostly get no therapy at all. So a home with a small rehab wing inside a large nursing population reads low here even if its rehab patients get plenty of therapy, and a mostly-rehab home reads high. Use it to compare homes doing similar work, ask what a rehab resident actually gets in a day, and remember that CMS does not publish therapy minutes per patient — nobody does.

Staffing

How full it usually is: this home is certified for 28 beds and averages 16.2 residents a day — about 58% occupied, or roughly 12 beds typically open. It often has substantial empty capacity — worth asking why, since low census can reflect either a new or shrinking home or one families are avoiding. This is a CMS average, not live availability — no public source publishes real-time vacancies, and a home can be full the day you call. Confirm with the home, and if you need a Medicaid bed specifically, ask about that separately: a home with open beds may still not have an open Medicaid bed.

Against a benchmark — not a legal minimum. In May 2024 CMS finalized the first federal staffing floor for nursing homes: 3.48 total nurse hours per resident per day, including 0.55 RN hours and 2.45 nurse-aide hours. Its hour requirements never took effect and are no longer on the books. Homes had until 2026 (2027 if rural) to comply, and that deadline never arrived: a federal court vacated the hour requirements in April 2025 (CMS has appealed), Congress then barred enforcement until 2034, and CMS formally repealed them by rule effective February 2026. This home is not required to meet these numbers, and is not violating anything by missing them. We still show the comparison because the figures are CMS’s own published estimate of adequate staffing, which makes them a useful yardstick — but they are our benchmark, not federal law: this home’s total nurse staffing of 6.05 hrs/resident/day is at or above the 3.48-hour benchmark and RN staffing of 0.51 is below the 0.55-hour RN benchmark and nurse-aide staffing of 2.52 is at or above the 2.45-hour aide benchmark. What federal law does require today is unchanged: “sufficient” nursing staff for residents’ needs and an RN on duty at least 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 days a week (42 CFR 483.35). Those are judged by inspectors on site, not by these averages, so read this comparison alongside the inspection record rather than as a pass/fail.

Weekend coverage: total nurse staffing is 5.95 hrs/resident/day on weekends vs 6.09 on weekdays — 2% thinner on weekends. RN hours go from 0.50 to 0.56 per resident-day. (Payroll-based daily records; the national median home is 15% thinner on weekends.)

This home’s total nursing-staff turnover of 66% is well above the national median of 45%. 2 administrators have left in the past year — frequent leadership churn is a warning sign families often miss.

Payroll-based (PBJ) staffing hours, as reported for Jan–Mar 2026 (CMS PBJ CY2026Q1) — the most recent quarter CMS has published, so they can lag a change of operator or staffing agency. Higher is generally better. Registered-nurse coverage and weekend staffing are the numbers families most often overlook — an RN on site matters most when something goes wrong, and coverage usually thins on weekends. High turnover means residents rarely see the same caregiver twice. One caveat: these are hours as reported, not adjusted for how sick or heavy-care this home’s residents are. CMS separately publishes a case-mix-adjusted view; we show the reported hours. A home caring for higher-acuity residents needs more hours to deliver the same care, so compare these figures against homes doing similar work, and read them next to the inspection record rather than alone.

Inspection trend

Deficiencies are more than at the previous inspection — worsening. Fewer citations over time suggests a home is fixing problems; a rising count is a warning sign — though two surveys are a short record, and survey teams differ. These counts are from the standard annual health survey only; the full citation list below may also include findings from complaint investigations, so the two won’t always add up.

Inspection deficiencies

State health-inspection citations, most serious first. Each carries an F-code (the federal rule it cites, e.g. F-684 = quality of care) and a letter A–L marking how serious and how widespread the problem was — we translate that grid into the plain tiers shown here. Wording is the official federal description.

Each letter is a CMS scope-severity level; highlighted ones are where this home has citations. A–C = no harm found; D–F = potential for harm; G–I = actual harm; J–L = immediate jeopardy. Within each band the later letter is the more widespread finding (an isolated G is one resident; a widespread I is a pattern), so rightward and downward is worse.

15 citations, most serious first. The 10 most serious are shown; the remaining 5 are one tap away and print in full.

• Potential for harm · F2026-02-25 · tag F0732 — widespread
  Post nurse staffing information every day.
  What the surveyor found here — the official record, unedited, may be distressing

  Based on observation and interviews, the facility failed to ensure that nurse staffing information was posted at the beginning of each shift in a clear and readable format that was accessible to residents and visitors. The facility's census was 12.Findings:On 02/24/2026 at 8:14 a.m., an observation of Hall W and Hall W's nurse's station failed to reveal that the nurse staffing information was posted.On 02/24/2026 at 8:21 a.m., an observation of Hall W and Hall W's nurse's station and interview was conducted with S2ADON/IP and S3ADM. They confirmed the nurse staffing information pattern was not posted on 02/24/2026, and it should have been.

  Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · F2026-02-25 · tag F0838 — failed to assess facility resources and resident needs — widespread
  Conduct and document a facility-wide assessment to determine what resources are necessary to care for residents competently during both day-to-day operations (including nights and weekends) and emergencies.
  What the surveyor found here — the official record, unedited, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to ensure the facility assessment was updated after changes were made to the resident capacity. The facility census was 12.Findings:Review of the Facility's assessment dated [DATE] included the resident profile, which revealed the number of residents you are licensed to provide care for: 18. the facility has 18 beds.On 02/24/2026 at 9:28 a.m., a record review and interview were conducted with S1DON. She stated on 12/15/2025 that the facility received their license and approval to care for 28 residents. She confirmed the facility assessment dated [DATE] revealed the number of residents the facility was licensed to care for was 18, and the facility had 18 beds. S1DON confirmed that the facility assessment should have been updated to reflect the new bed capacity changes.

  Administration Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · E2026-02-25 · tag F0640 — pattern
  Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on record reviews and interviews, the facility failed to electronically transmit encoded, accurate and complete Minimum Data Set (MDS) data to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) within the required timeframe for 5 (#4, #8, #11, #17, and #26) of 5 (#4, #8, #11, #17, and #26) residents reviewed for the discharge assessments.Findings:Review of Resident #4's clinical record revealed she was admitted to the facility on [DATE] and discharged on 09/18/2025. Review of Resident #4's MDS assessments revealed discharge assessment was accepted on 02/23/2026. It should have been submitted by 10/02/2025.Review of Resident #8's clinical record revealed she was admitted to the facility on [DATE] and discharged on 09/09/2025. Review of Resident #8's MDS assessments revealed discharge assessment was accepted on 09/28/2025. It should have been submitted by 09/23/2025.Review of Resident #11's clinical record revealed she was admitted to the facility on [DATE] and discharged on 09/12/2025. Review of Resident #11's MDS…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Ecited before2026-02-25 · tag F0812 — failed to store, cook, and serve food safely — pattern
  Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on observations and interviews, the facility failed to store food in accordance with professional standards for food service, and ensure sanitary conditions were maintained in the kitchen as evidenced by:1. opened food items in the walk-in cooler without the date and time they were opened nor the use by date; and2. no temperatures logged for kitchen fridge cooler, the patient cooler, and the walk-in cooler.This deficient practice had the potential to affect the 12 residents who consumed food from the kitchen.Findings:On 02/23/2026 at 8:28 a.m., a tour of the facility's kitchen was conducted with S8DM, who stated she was responsible for the day to day management of the kitchen.On 02/23/2026 at 8:43 a.m., an observation of the walk-in cooler was conducted with S8DM and revealed the following items were opened and not labeled with the date and time they were opened nor the use by date: (2) large bags of parmesan cheese; large bag of mozzarella cheese; large container of Caesar dressing; large container of ranch dressing; large container of Italian dressing; (2) large containers…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Ecited before2026-02-25 · tag F0880 — failed to prevent and control infections — pattern
  Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on record reviews, observations, and interviews, the facility failed to maintain an effective infection prevention and control program by failing to ensure staff utilized appropriate PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) for residents on EBP (Enhanced Barrier Precautions) while providing high-contact resident care activity for 2 (#12 and #34) of 22 sampled residents.Findings: A review of the facility's policy titled, Isolation Precautions, with a last reviewed date of 01/22/2026, revealed in part. Key Components of Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBP): 1. Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).Gloves and Gowns must be worn when providing care that involves high-contact activities (even if the resident is not in isolation). These include. Providing hygiene assistance (toileting, device care, wound care).Assisting with mobility . Resident #12 A review of Resident #12's record revealed she was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with diagnoses that included, but were not limited to, diabetes mellitus type 2…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Infection Control Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2026-02-25 · tag F0582 — isolated
  Give residents notice of Medicaid/Medicare coverage and potential liability for services not covered.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on record review and interview, the facility failed to ensure the Notice of Medicare Non-Coverage form CMS-10123 was completed prior to the discontinuation of Medicare Part A services (short term skilled nursing care and/or rehabilitation) for 2 (#39, #40) out of 3 (#38, #39, #40) residents reviewed for termination of Medicare Part A services.Findings:Resident #39Review of Resident #39's electronic health record revealed she was admitted to the facility on [DATE].Review of the Skilled Nursing Facility Beneficiary Notification Review, form CMS-20052, completed by the facility revealed, in part, Resident #39's last day of Medicare Part A Services was on 10/16/2025.Review of Resident #39's NOMNC (Notice of Medicare Non-Coverage) revealed the form was signed and dated by the resident on 10/02/2025. Further review revealed the effective date coverage of you current Skilled Nursing Facility Services will end: date was left blank. There was no additional NOMNC provided to resident prior to discharge.Resident…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Rights Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2026-02-25 · tag F0585 — failed to handle grievances — isolated
  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.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  Based on interviews and record review, the facility failed to initiate a grievance for 1 (Resident #10) of 1 sampled residents reviewed for grievances in a final sample of 22 residents.Findings:Review of the facility's policy titled Complaint/Grievance Process, with a last review date of 01/01/2026, read in part: procedure: a patient complaint is a verbal complaint about patient care that is resolved immediately by staff present. Immediately is defined as within one hour.Review of Resident #10's clinical record revealed an admit date of 02/04/2026.Review of Resident #10's Comprehensive MDS (Minimum Data Set) revealed Resident #10 had a BIMS (Brief Interview of Mental Status) score of 15 indicating intact cognition. On 02/23/2026 at 9:46 a.m., an interview was conducted in Resident #10's room with the resident and her resident representative (RP). Resident was eating her breakfast, and stated it was hard to chew without her bottom dentures. RP and Resident #10 both stated she had been missing her bottom partial dentures and filed a complaint with multiple nurses since Friday,…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Rights Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · D2026-02-25 · tag F0695 — failed to provide proper breathing / tracheostomy care — isolated
  Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on record reviews, observations, and interview, the facility failed to ensure residents who required respiratory care were provided care consistent with professional standards by failing to properly store and label the resident's nasal cannula for 1 (#12) of 1 resident investigated for respiratory care.Findings:A review of Resident #12's record revealed she was admitted to the facility on [DATE] with diagnoses that included, but were not limited to, partial idiopathic epilepsy with seizures of localized onset, respiratory distress, obstructive sleep apnea, and morbidly obese. A Review of Resident #12's admission MDS (Minimum Data Set) assessment with an ARD (Assessment Reference Date) of 02/18/2026 revealed she had a BIMS (Brief Interview for Mental Status) score of 15, indicating she was cognitively intact. Further review revealed that Section GG, Functional Abilities: the resident has an impairment in the upper extremity on one side, and Section O, Special Treatments, Procedures, and Programs: the…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · F2025-02-19 · tag F0655 — widespread
  Create and put into place a plan for meeting the resident's most immediate needs within 48 hours of being admitted
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on record reviews and interview, the facility failed to develop and implement a person centered baseline care plan for 7 (#65, #66, #67, #117, #165, #167 and #168) residents out of a total sample of 11 residents by: 1. Failing to develop a baseline care plan to include goals and interventions for a left wrist splint and pelvic fractures for Resident #65; 2. Failing to develop a baseline care plan to include goals and interventions for a cardiac defibrillator and right great toe fracture for Resident #66; 3. Failing to develop a baseline care plan to include goals and interventions for the use of Insulin for Resident #67; 4. Failing to develop a baseline care plan to include goals and interventions for the use of Insulin, Anticoagulant and Antianxiety medications for Resident #117; 5. Failing to develop baseline a care plan to include goals and interventions for the use of Antidepressant, Anticoagulant, Opioid and Diuretic medications for Resident #165; 6. Failing to develop a baseline care plan to include…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction
• Potential for harm · Fcited before2025-02-19 · tag F0880 — failed to prevent and control infections — widespread
  Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
  What the surveyor found here — an excerpt from the official record, may be distressing

  NOTE- TERMS IN BRACKETS HAVE BEEN EDITED TO PROTECT CONFIDENTIALITY Based on observations, interviews, and record review, the facility failed to maintain an infection prevention and control program (IPCP) designed to provide a safe and sanitary environment to help prevent the development and transmission of infection. The facility failed to ensure: 1. The facility's IPCP and its standards, policies and procedures were reviewed at least annually, and 2. Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBP) were in place for Resident #115. This had the potential to affect the census of 10. Findings: 1. On 02/17/2025 at 3:00 PM, a review of the facility's following IPCP policies and procedures revealed the following: -Resident Pneumococcal Vaccination program effective date 09/01/2020 with no revised date; -COVID- 19 Vaccination Program effective 11/01/2021 with no revised date; -Resident Influenza Vaccination Program effective 09/01/2020 with revised date of 01/01/2022; -Infection Control Committee effective date 09/01/2020 with no revised date; and -Infection Control Plan effective date 09/01/2020…

  This is the beginning of the surveyor’s statement, cut to keep the page readable — the full 2567 continues past this point and often ends with the findings that matter most, such as whether an immediate jeopardy was removed before the surveyors left. The complete statement of deficiencies is a public record: request it from your state survey agency, or ask the home for its 2567 and plan of correction — it must make them available to residents and families.

  Infection Control Deficiencies · Deficient, Provider has date of correction

“Cited before” means this same F-tag appears on at least one other survey date in the record we hold — counting complaint investigations as well as standard surveys, with no time limit. It is our own read of the data, not CMS’s: CMS uses repeat deficiency as a formal term tied to consecutive standard surveys, and that is a narrower test than this one. A tag marked here may or may not meet it.

Fines & penalties

No federal fines in the current CMS record.

Part of a chain

This home belongs to PRIORITY MANAGEMENT — 38 facilities. Here is how its ratings compare with the chain’s average across all its homes: See the whole chain — ratings, flags, fines and finances →

A home rated well below its chain’s average can signal local problems; a chain with a low average across the board is a bigger pattern worth researching. CMS chain data under-reports private-equity and REIT ownership, so treat this as a floor, not the full picture.

Who owns this facility

CMS files one row per role, so the 27 rows in the source record cover these 14 parties — each is shown once here with every role it holds. Nothing is omitted.

5 organizational owners listed — a facility can be part of a larger chain. CMS ownership data is known to under-report private-equity and REIT ties; treat as a starting point.

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