Gueydan Memorial Nursing Home

• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Oct 10, 2025

• 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.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Oct 10, 2025

• Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Oct 10, 2025

• Try different approaches before using a bed rail. If a bed rail is needed, the facility must (1) assess a resident for safety risk; (2) review these risks and benefits with the resident/representative; (3) get informed consent; and (4) Correctly install and maintain the bed rail.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Oct 10, 2025

• Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Oct 10, 2025

• 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.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Oct 10, 2025

• Arrange for the provision of hospice services or assist the resident in transferring to a facility that will arrange for the provision of hospice services.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Oct 10, 2025

• Honor the resident's right to manage his or her financial affairs.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Sep 21, 2024

• Ensure residents have reasonable access to and privacy in their use of communication methods.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Sep 21, 2024

• 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.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Sep 21, 2024

• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

  Severity F of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, widespreadCorrected Sep 21, 2024

• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Sep 21, 2024

• Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Sep 21, 2024

• Notify the resident or the resident’s representative in writing how long the nursing home will hold the resident’s bed in cases of transfer to a hospital or therapeutic leave.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 21, 2024

• Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 21, 2024

• Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 21, 2024

• Ensure therapeutic diets are prescribed by the attending physician and may be delegated to a registered or licensed dietitian, to the extent allowed by State law.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 21, 2024

• Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Sep 21, 2024

• Post nurse staffing information every day.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Aug 17, 2023

• Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Aug 17, 2023

• Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Aug 24, 2023

• Ensure smoke barriers are constructed to a 1 hour fire resistance rating.

  Severity E of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, patternCorrected Sep 1, 2023

• Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Aug 29, 2023

• Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Aug 24, 2023

• Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Aug 28, 2023

• Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Aug 17, 2023

• Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.

  Severity D of L: no actual harm, potential for more than minimal harm, isolatedCorrected Aug 25, 2023

Gueydan Memorial Nursing Home offers Skilled Nursing / Long Term Care.

Gueydan Memorial Nursing Home is located at 1201 Third St in Gueydan, Louisiana.

Most reviewers describe Gueydan Memorial Nursing Home as clean, home-like, and staffed by caring employees who keep residents engaged in daily activities. One reviewer, however, reported a serious incident in which an elderly resident was left alone for hours in another town's emergency room with no follow-up from the facility.

Gueydan Memorial Nursing Home had 3 government inspection visits in the last three years, with 27 citations on file according to CMS Care Compare data. The full history, including what each citation was for and whether it was corrected, is in the inspection section on this page.

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