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Baton Rouge General Medical Center, SNF

3600 Florida Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806 · E. Baton Rouge County · (225) 387-7161

2 certified beds, about 23 residents a day · Non profit - Corporation · Medicare since 1977

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Overall
5 of 5
Health inspections
5 of 5
Staffing
4 of 5
Quality measures
4 of 5

CMS Care Compare ratings, data as of September 1, 2026 · CCN 195139 · See it on Medicare.gov · Compare with other homes

The record in brief

At its most recent standard inspection, on April 23, 2026, inspectors cited 1 health deficiency (the Louisiana average is 6.4, the national average 9.2).

None of its 7 health citations since April 2024 was rated as actual harm or immediate jeopardy.

CMS lists no fines against this home in the last three years.

Nurses and nurse aides worked 5.89 hours per resident per day, against 3.76 across Louisiana and 3.86 nationally. Registered nurses accounted for 1.48 of those hours.

Health inspections

Federal rules call for a standard inspection at least every 15 months, plus a visit whenever a complaint is filed. Each mark below is one citation, colored by how serious inspectors rated it. How to read a citation.

Under each citation, the quoted text is the inspector's own summary from the federal statement of deficiencies (CMS form 2567), word for word apart from a privacy scrub; CMS removes residents' and staff names before it publishes the text. The full notes are on Medicare.gov.

Potential for minimal harm Potential for more than minimal harm Actual harm Immediate jeopardy Found on a complaint visit

Where its citations fall on CMS's grid

CMS rates every citation by how much harm it caused (rows) and how many residents it touched (columns). The count in each box is this home's, across all 7 health citations on file.

Severity
Isolated
Pattern
Widespread
Immediate jeopardy
0J
0K
0L
Actual harm
0G
0H
0I
Potential for more than minimal harm
3D
3E
0F
Potential for minimal harm
0A
0B
1C
April 23, 2026Standard inspection · 1 citation
  1. D
    Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
    F842 · Resident Assessment and Care Planning · No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) June 7, 2026
    Inspectors wroteBased on interviews and record review, the facility failed to accurately maintain documented records for 1 (#26) of 12 sampled residents. The facility failed to accurately document Resident #26's code status into the electronic health record.
March 19, 2025Standard inspection · 4 citations
  1. E
    Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
    F656 · Resident Assessment and Care Planning · No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, pattern · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) March 31, 2025
    Inspectors wroteBased on observation, record reviews, and interviews, the provider failed to develop and implement a Comprehensive Person-Centered Care Plan to meet the needs of 4 (#1, #170, and #171, and #218) of 19 total sampled residents. The facility failed to: 1. Ensure Residents #1, #170, #171 were care planned for anticoagulant medication; 2. Ensure Resident #1 was care planned for antidepressant medication; and 3. Ensure Resident #218 was care planned for indwelling foley catheter.
  2. E
    Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
    F757 · Pharmacy Service · No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, pattern · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) March 31, 2025
    Inspectors wroteBased on record reviews and interviews, the facility failed to ensure adequate monitoring for side effects with the use of psychotropic and anticoagulant medication was completed for 3 (#1, #170, and #171) of 5 (#1, #168, #169, #170, and #171) residents reviewed for unnecessary medications. The facility failed to ensure: 1. Resident #1 was monitored for side effects of an antidepressant medication; and 2. Residents #1, #170, and #171 were monitored for side effects of anticoagulant medications. This deficient practice had the potential to affect any of the 19 residents residing on the Skilled Nursing Facility unit.
  3. D
    Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
    F880 · Infection Control · No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) March 31, 2025
    Inspectors wroteBased on record review, observation, and interviews the facility failed to implement and maintain an infection prevention control program to help prevent the development and transmission of infection by failing to ensure staff donned proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and performed proper hand hygiene during resident care for of 1 (#218) of 3 (#118, #121, and #218) residents whom required EBP (Enhanced Barrier Precautions).
  4. C
    Post nurse staffing information every day.
    F732 · Nursing and Physician Services · No actual harm, potential for minimal harm, widespread · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) March 31, 2025
    Inspectors wroteBased on observations and interviews, the facility failed to ensure nurse staffing data requirements were posted. This deficient practice had the potential to affect any of the 19 residents residing in the facility.
April 30, 2024Standard inspection · 2 citations
  1. E
    Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
    F880 · Infection Control · No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, pattern · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) May 17, 2024
    Inspectors wroteBased on observations, interviews and record review, the facility failed to maintain an infection prevention and control program designed to provide a safe and sanitary environment to help prevent the development and transmission of infection. The facility failed to ensure S5RN and S6PCA wore proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) while providing care for 1 (#116) of 2 (#116 and #170) residents with indwelling medical devices.
  2. D
    Encode each resident’s assessment data and transmit these data to the State within 7 days of assessment.
    F640 · Resident Assessment and Care Planning · No actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolated · Corrected (the home has a date of correction) May 17, 2024
    Inspectors wroteBased on interviews and record reviews the facility failed to complete and transmit MDS assessments in the required timeframe for 3 of 3 (#7, #8, and #10) residents reviewed for resident assessment.

Fines and payment denials

CMS lists no fines or payment denials against this home in the last three years. The national average is 0.9 fines per home.

Staffing

Hours of care per resident per day, from the payroll records every home sends CMS. Higher means more staff time with each resident.

MeasureThis homeLouisianaUnited States
All nursing staff (RN, LPN and aides)5.893.763.86
Registered nurses1.480.310.69
All nursing staff on weekends5.833.213.42
Nurse aides2.61
Licensed practical nurses1.79
Nursing staff turnover (share who left in a year)not reported47.6%45.8%
Registered nurse turnovernot reported41.6%42.9%
Administrators who leftnot reported

CMS expects 3.62 hours a day for residents as sick as this home's (its case-mix figure). The staffing star compares the two.

Staffing by quarter, from daily payroll records

Every nursing home sends CMS its staff hours for each day (the Payroll Based Journal). Here they are added up by quarter. The latest quarter is the one behind the figures above. In January to March 2026, nursing staff hours per resident were 5.91 on weekdays and 5.83 on weekends, 1% lower on weekends (nationally, weekends ran 15% lower). Contract or agency staff worked 0.0% of nursing hours, against 5.3% nationally. Total nursing hours per resident went from 4.83 in April to June 2025 to 5.89 in January to March 2026.

QuarterAll nursing staffRegistered nursesWeekdaysWeekendsContract staff shareDays with no RN hoursResidents a day
Jan to Mar 20265.891.485.915.83 0.0%0 of 9023
Oct to Dec 20255.601.495.595.63 0.0%0 of 9225
Jul to Sep 20255.251.575.215.33 0.0%0 of 9226
Apr to Jun 20254.831.324.814.87 0.0%0 of 9129
United States, Jan to Mar 20263.750.623.923.335.3%0.5% of days
Louisiana, Jan to Mar 20263.640.263.863.103.6%0.9% of days

Hours per resident per day: staff hours in the quarter divided by resident days (the daily census CMS derives from resident assessments). Registered nurses include the director of nursing and RNs with administrative duties; aides include nurse aides in training and medication aides, as in CMS's own staffing measure. How these are calculated.

Staff pay reports

Staff pay at this home

No staff pay figure for this home has passed review yet. A figure appears only after at least 5 reports from at least 3 different people, sent over at least 60 days, have passed review. If you work here, your report helps start one.

Official wage estimates for Louisiana

JobMedianMiddle halfEmployed
Louisiana, all employers
CNAs (nursing assistants)$14.67$13.97 to $16.8720,690
LPNs and LVNs$27.63$23.87 to $29.4317,600
Registered nurses$38.57$33.19 to $45.0048,970
United States, nursing care facilities
CNAs (nursing assistants)$20.67$17.91 to $22.55534,270
LPNs and LVNs$33.86$30.05 to $37.40188,210
Registered nurses$41.11$37.85 to $47.68142,270

Hourly wages; the middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS has no separate estimate for medication aides. These are survey estimates for whole occupations, not figures for any one home.

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Quality measures

The measures CMS uses for the quality star. Lower is better for every one of them.

MeasureThis homeLouisianaUS
Percentage of short-stay residents who newly received an antipsychotic medication
Short Stay residents, 2025Q2-2026Q1
0.23.11.6
Percentage of short-stay residents who were rehospitalized after a nursing home admission
Short Stay residents, 20250101-20251231
20.328.023.8
Percentage of short-stay residents who had an outpatient emergency department visit
Short Stay residents, 20250101-20251231
10.214.812.0

Short-term rehab results

For a stay to recover after a hospital visit, these are the results CMS publishes for Baton Rouge General Medical Center, SNF's Medicare short-stay residents. On returning residents home or to the community, CMS rates it better than the national rate (79.7% of residents, after adjusting for how sick they were). How to read these, and what Medicare pays for.

Went home or back to the community

79.7% this home

Better than the national rate

US median of homes 51.5% · Louisiana: 16 better, 33 worse

Rate of successful return to home or community from a SNF (risk-standardized discharge to community rate). Higher is better. October 2022 to September 2024. 129 eligible stays.

Potentially preventable readmissions

10.3% this home

No different from the national rate

US median of homes 10.7% · Louisiana: 0 better, 3 worse

Rate of potentially preventable hospital readmissions 30 days after discharge from a SNF (risk-standardized rate). Lower is better. October 2022 to September 2024. 146 eligible stays.

Infections that led to a hospital stay

5.2% this home

No different from the national rate

US median of homes 7.1% · Louisiana: 1 better, 7 worse

Percentage of infections residents got during their SNF stay that resulted in hospitalization (risk-standardized rate). Lower is better. October 2023 to September 2024. 74 eligible stays.

Self-care and mobility at discharge

28.2% this home

Median of homes: Louisiana50.0% · US 56.6%

Percentage of residents who are at or above an expected ability to care for themselves and move around at discharge. Higher is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 78 residents counted.

Falls with major injury

1.1% this home

Median of homes: Louisiana1.0% · US 0.0%

Percentage of SNF residents who experience one or more falls with major injury during their SNF stay. Lower is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 91 residents counted.

New or worsened pressure ulcers

1.7% this home

Median of homes: Louisiana2.8% · US 1.7%

Percentage of residents with pressure ulcers or pressure injuries that are new or worsened (adjusted rate). Lower is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 91 residents counted.

Medication list given at discharge

100.0% this home

Median of homes: Louisiana100.0% · US 98.7%

Percentage of residents where the SNF provided a current medication list to the resident, family, and/or caregiver at final discharge. Higher is better. October 2024 to September 2025. 20 residents counted.

Source: CMS Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program - Provider Data, released 2026-09-30. Better, no different and worse are CMS's own comparisons with the national rate, after adjusting for how sick residents were. Medians of homes and the state counts are worked out by us from the same file.

Owners and operators

Legal business name: BATON ROUGE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER.

NameRoleTypeShareSince
General Health System5% or greater direct ownership interestOrganization10/01/2006
Braud, CarolynW-2 managing employeeIndividual10/01/2016
Johnson, KendallW-2 managing employeeIndividual06/27/2011
Shelton, LindsayW-2 managing employeeIndividual04/01/2018
Tenreiro, EdgardoW-2 managing employeeIndividual10/01/2009
Banda, VenkatramCorporate directorIndividual01/01/2011
Franklin, PerryCorporate directorIndividual01/01/2010
Graphia, GaryCorporate directorIndividual10/01/2011
Hamilton, GwenCorporate directorIndividual04/01/2018
Hart, MargaretCorporate directorIndividual01/01/2011
Jackson, BrianCorporate directorIndividual04/01/2018
Johnson, KendallCorporate directorIndividual06/27/2011
Juban, JoeCorporate directorIndividual10/01/2012
Kadair, RoyCorporate directorIndividual10/01/2006
McLaurin, PhylissCorporate directorIndividual01/01/2014
Minsky, LouisCorporate directorIndividual04/01/2018
Nahmens, IsabelinaCorporate directorIndividual01/01/2014
Olinde, AndrewCorporate directorIndividual01/01/2011
Starns, EdgarCorporate directorIndividual04/01/2018
Williams, RonnieCorporate directorIndividual10/01/2011

As listed in the CMS ownership file, which names owners with a 5% or greater stake and the people and companies with operational or managerial control.

Questions to ask on a visit

Chosen from this home's own inspection record.

  1. When is the care plan meeting, and can family attend it?Inspectors cited 3 problems in this area, most recently on April 23, 2026: "Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards."
  2. What changed in infection control since the last inspection, and who on staff is the infection preventionist?Inspectors cited 2 problems in this area, most recently on March 19, 2025: "Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program."
  3. How are medications reviewed, and how often are antipsychotic or sedating drugs used?Inspectors cited 1 problem in this area, most recently on March 19, 2025: "Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs."
  4. How many nurses and aides work each shift, nights and weekends included?Inspectors cited 1 problem in this area, most recently on March 19, 2025: "Post nurse staffing information every day."

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Common questions

What is Baton Rouge General Medical Center, SNF's Medicare star rating?
CMS rates Baton Rouge General Medical Center, SNF 5 out of 5 stars overall, with 5 for health inspections, 4 for staffing and 4 for quality measures (CMS data as of September 1, 2026).
How many deficiencies did Baton Rouge General Medical Center, SNF get at its last inspection?
1 health deficiency at the standard inspection on April 23, 2026. The Louisiana average is 6.4.
Has Baton Rouge General Medical Center, SNF been fined?
CMS lists no fines in the last three years.
Does Baton Rouge General Medical Center, SNF accept Medicaid?
CMS lists it as "Medicare", so it is not certified for Medicaid.
Who owns Baton Rouge General Medical Center, SNF?
CMS lists 20 owners and managers. Legal business name: BATON ROUGE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER.

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