Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge

How is Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge listed on Louisiana's provider roster?

Louisiana's November 2026 roster shows Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge as an active adult residential care license (#2203784818) for 45 residents; the typical larger ARCP in the ten-parish Baton Rouge area is licensed for 71.

Its licensing history starts in 2011. Each renewal is issued to the same licensee at the same address; if the operator changes, LDH must hear about it in writing within five business days.

What does a Level 3 license allow Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge to do?

Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge holds Louisiana's Level 3 license, the assisted living tier for 17 or more residents in apartments with kitchenettes: help with bathing, dressing, meals and medications, but no nursing delivered by the provider, a role reserved for Level 4 (LAC 48:I.6803, 6845).

The practical test comes at discharge: a Level 3 building can take a resident back if home health supplies the therapy or wound care and the ARCP coordinates it.

Does Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge have a dementia unit?

The roster is silent on it. Any ARCP that markets dementia care must keep written policies and criteria available to the public, so ask Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge to hand them over during the visit.

Ordinary ARCP staff need two hours of dementia training within 90 days and two hours a year; staff in a specialized program need eight hours each. Nearby ARCPs whose licensed names mention memory care: Holly Court Assisted Living and Memory Care (6.8 mi).

Has LDH cited Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge after an inspection?

Louisiana does not put ARCP surveys online, so start with the copy Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge must keep posted on site, then ask LDH's Health Standards Section for older statements if you want the full history.

LDH's renewal surveys and complaint visits are unannounced. Read the plan of correction next to each citation; it shows whether the fix changed training, staffing or policy. Concerns go to the Health Standards Section at 1-888-810-1819.

How would Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge handle a hurricane or flood?

Louisiana makes emergency planning a licensing requirement: Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge must keep a written plan for evacuating and sheltering in place, identify each resident, list what its generator runs, and give every resident a written copy of the evacuation procedures.

East Baton Rouge Parish is inland, so its storm risk is rain flooding along the Amite and Comite rivers and long power outages rather than surge; the August 2016 flood reached neighborhoods from Central to Southeast Baton Rouge. Ask for the host site's name, the last time the plan was used, and the disaster-fee formula Louisiana requires in the pre-residency paperwork.

Where else could we look besides Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge?

Garden View of Baton Rouge in Baton Rouge is the nearest other ARCP licensed for at least nine residents, sharing the same ZIP code; LDH lists it as Level 3 (assisted living) for 78 residents.

How close is Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge to a hospital?

Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge is located in the Southeast Baton Rouge, Jefferson Highway & Shenandoah part of Baton Rouge, and Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge is the closest acute-care hospital on LDH's roster, in the same ZIP code.

Baton Rouge General Medical Center follows at roughly 3.4 miles. These are ZIP-centroid distances, not drive times.

For a later move to nursing home care, the closest CMS-certified homes are White Oak Post Acute Care (1.6 mi, CMS Not rated by CMS) and Woodleigh of Baton Rouge, The (1.6 mi, CMS 2 of 5).

East Baton Rouge Parish is inside the area LDH lists for PACE Baton Rouge, which combines Medicare and Medicaid services for people 55 and older who qualify for nursing home care but live in the community.

Also licensed at this street address: Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge (nursing home, #2203784832).

What should we ask Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge before signing?

Begin with the paperwork Louisiana requires: request the latest statement of deficiencies and the plan of correction that answered it; both must be available on site.

• Ask which outside home health agencies currently serve residents, since a Level 3 provider cannot supply nursing itself.
• Ask how medication help works here, whether through a nurse, a certified medication attendant or reminders only, and how it is billed.
• Read the residency agreement's termination section; a resident can appeal an involuntary discharge to the Division of Administrative Law within 30 days.
• Ask what triggers a move to a higher care fee, and confirm the 30-day written notice for rate changes.
• Ask to meet Travis Corsell, the administrator named on the license, and who runs the building overnight.