Nursing homes around Baton Rouge

What is a nursing home in Louisiana?

A facility licensed by LDH to provide 24-hour nursing care, and, if certified for Medicare and Medicaid, inspected by LDH for CMS and rated on Care Compare.

LDH's November 2026 report shows 40 licensed nursing homes in the ten parishes; CMS publishes an overall rating for 39 of them, and 12 hold four or five stars (Care Compare data dated October 1, 2026).

How do people get into a Louisiana nursing home?

Admission to a Medicaid-certified home requires an OAAS nursing facility level-of-care determination, a Louisiana physician's order and pre-admission screening, whatever the payer.

Families start through the hospital case manager or Louisiana Options in Long-Term Care at 1-877-456-1146.

What does a nursing home cost in Louisiana?

CareScout's 2025 Louisiana medians are $91,250 a year for a semi-private room and $96,908 for a private room; Medicare covers up to 100 days of skilled care after a qualifying hospital stay, and Medicaid covers eligible long-stay residents.

Residents on Medicaid keep a $45 monthly Personal Care Needs Allowance.

How do we compare nursing homes around Baton Rouge?

Use CMS ratings as a starting point, then read the inspection date, deficiency count, staffing hours and turnover on each facility page and visit at different times of day.

Ask about the emergency plan, the generator and where residents went during the last evacuation or long outage.

How many nursing homes are there around Baton Rouge, and where?

LDH licenses about forty nursing homes across the ten parishes, most of them in the City of Baton Rouge, with others in Zachary, Baker, Denham Springs, Gonzales, Donaldsonville, Port Allen, Plaquemine, New Roads, Jackson, Slaughter, St. Francisville, Napoleonville and Greensburg.

Rural parishes often have only one or two homes, which makes the choice there about distance as much as ratings. The nursing home roster filters by parish and city and sorts by CMS rating, inspection date and deficiency count.

Where is nursing homes licensed around Baton Rouge?

This is how LDH's November 2026 roster spreads nursing homes across the parishes that have any; capacity means LDH's licensed residents for ARCPs and CMS certified beds for nursing homes.