Sage Rehabilitation Hospital SNF

    8000 Summa Ave, Baton Rouge, LA 70809
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.68·(31)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      4.5
    • Staff

      4.6
    • Meals

      5.0
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      4.7

    Pros

    • Compassionate and attentive nursing and caregiving staff
    • Skilled, effective physical and occupational therapy team
    • Strong wound-care expertise and continuity across facilities
    • High-quality meals and dedicated kitchen staff
    • Engaging activities program with an active director
    • Clean, orderly, and calm facility environment
    • Reliable arranged transportation and dialysis transport
    • Individualized, goal-focused rehabilitation plans
    • Personable bedside staff and responsive CNAs/techs
    • Smooth discharge planning and coordinated follow-up

    Cons

    • Inconsistent staff responsiveness and delays in attending to resident requests
    • Insufficient staffing levels affecting supervision and safety
    • Gaps in weekend nursing and activity coverage
    • Communication and care-coordination breakdowns between teams and families
    • Weak fall-prevention and emergency escalation practices
    • Operational disorganization impacting continuity of care
    • Allegation of staff theft and related trust concerns

    Summary of reviews

    Sage Rehabilitation Hospital SNF receives consistently strong praise for its rehabilitative services, food, and many members of the care team. Therapy — including physical and occupational therapy — is repeatedly described as skilled, individualized, and effective in helping residents regain mobility and meet functional goals. The facility’s wound-care capability, coordinated discharge planning, and arranged transportation services (including dialysis transport) are additional practical strengths cited by families and residents.

    Nursing, CNAs, and front-line caregivers are often characterized as compassionate, attentive, and personable. Several comments highlight a calm, clean environment and a thoughtful, patient-centered approach to rehabilitation. The kitchen and food service receive frequent compliments for quality meals prepared by a dedicated staff member. The activities program and activity director are also viewed positively for providing social engagement and exercise opportunities that support recovery.

    Despite these strengths, reviews indicate recurring operational weaknesses that prospective families should evaluate. There are multiple concerns about inconsistent responsiveness to nurse calls and delays in attending to resident needs, which reviewers linked to an insufficient staff-to-patient ratio at times. Weekend coverage for nursing and activities was noted as thinner, and several accounts describe communication gaps among clinical teams and between staff and family members. These communication and coordination issues are associated with delayed escalation to acute care in some instances and with confusion about patient status.

    Safety-related themes appear in the reviews: fall-prevention practices and emergency escalation pathways were questioned, and some reviewers described injuries or delayed transfers as a consequence of those gaps. Operational disorganization — for example, scheduling and handoff problems — was also mentioned as affecting continuity of care. Finally, one review raised an allegation of staff theft; while isolated in the dataset, this is a serious trust concern worth verifying with facility leadership and through background checks or regulatory records.

    Overall, Sage Rehabilitation Hospital SNF appears to offer strong rehabilitative care, skilled clinical teams, and well-regarded dining and activity programs. Families considering this facility should weigh those strengths against pattern-level concerns about staffing consistency, weekend coverage, communication, and safety/protocol adherence. Recommended follow-up questions when visiting: current staffing ratios (including weekends), fall-prevention and emergency transfer protocols, how care coordination and family communication are handled, and what measures are in place to address any allegation or incident reports.

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    Medicare Ratings

    5·/ 5
    • Overall

    • Health Inspection

    • Staffing

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    Location

    Sage Rehabilitation Hospital SNF is located at 8000 Summa Ave, Baton Rouge, LA, 70809.

    About Sage Rehabilitation Hospital SNF

    Sage Rehabilitation Hospital SNF is a skilled nursing facility that helps people recover from illness or injury with a focus on getting them back to their homes, work, and communities, and you'll find their team of doctors, nurses, therapists, dietitians, and case managers work together to provide care that fits each patient's needs, and they've got services for rehabilitation, medical care, wound care, and long-term acute care all under one roof at different sites in Baton Rouge and Lafayette, with inpatient and outpatient options depending on what your situation calls for. Sage's therapy departments offer physical, occupational, and speech therapy in both one-on-one sessions and group settings, using methods like Neuro-Developmental Treatment for stroke patients and the LSVT programs for Parkinson's disease, and if you need help with things like cognitive skills, swallowing, speech, memory, or even driving after a brain injury, they've got programs set up for that, including assessments and therapy for voice and language problems with tools like AmpCare and VitalStim. People who need more time to heal can stay at their 25-bed skilled nursing facility or the 20-bed inpatient rehab hospital, with a choice of private or semi-private rooms, and folks who are able to participate in three hours of therapy a day, 5-6 days a week, get specialized inpatient therapy, while those needing less intensive support can get up to 2.5 hours a day, and all of these patients get round-the-clock nursing care and daily checks by physiatrists and internal medicine specialists. There's also a Day Neuro Program for folks recovering from brain problems, with therapy, community outings, leisure, and education groups, and they provide transportation for eligible patients to certain programs. People struggling with hip fractures, joint replacements, arthritis, amputations, burns, strokes, Parkinson's, brain injuries, vision issues, spinal cord injuries, and other issues can get treatment here, as well as wound care, nutritional services with dietitian-approved menus, and activity therapy, and Sage also supports emotional, spiritual, and physical healing with their programs, doing their best to treat people with dignity and respect. They help plan for returning home or moving to a less intensive care setting, and their admission office can help you figure out what level of care or program is right for your situation; you should know they accept Medicare, Medicaid, most managed care, and commercial plans. Facilities are located at several addresses in Baton Rouge and Lafayette, with Sage Outpatient Services at 8313 Picardy Ave, inpatient long-term care at 8225 Summa Ave Building B, and inpatient rehabilitation at 8000 Summa Ave in Baton Rouge, and they also have outpatient wound care and case management services, so if you need therapy after an accident, illness, or surgery, or if you need ongoing skilled care while you work toward getting stronger, Sage tries to cover a lot of ground with options for both short-term recovery and longer-term needs.

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