Nursing home
Bayside Healthcare Center
3201 Wall Blvd, Gretna, LA 70056 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · 151 certified beds
Bayside Healthcare Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Gretna, Louisiana. CMS rates it 2 out of 5 stars overall (1/5 for staffing, 4/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.14 hours per resident per day, below the Louisiana average of 3.81. Its most recent inspection on Sep 17, 2025 cited 4 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Bayside Healthcare Center compares
This facility vs. the Louisiana and national averages, from CMS data. For staffing, higher is generally better; for turnover and deficiencies, lower is better.
| Metric | This facility | Louisiana avg | National avg | Compared with the state |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total nurse staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 3.14 | 3.81 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.17 | 0.32 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 1.89 | 2.32 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 76.9% | 48.0% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 4.0 | 8.3 | 9.5 | below avg |
Staffing
Hours per resident per day as reported to CMS. Higher numbers indicate more direct care time.
Staff turnover
Lower turnover typically indicates better working conditions and continuity of care. National average for nursing staff is 46.4%.
Recent health inspection
CMS inspects nursing facilities regularly. Deficiencies are categorized by severity.
- Every deficiency from the September 17, 2025 inspection was corrected by October 27, 2025
What inspectors found at Bayside Healthcare Center
Specific deficiencies cited in recent CMS health inspections, most recent first. Severity follows the CMS scope/severity scale. Source: CMS Care Compare.
- Potential for harm
Make sure there is a pest control program to prevent/deal with mice, insects, or other pests.
Environmental Deficiencies · Sep 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Sep 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Sep 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Sep 17, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Implement a program that monitors antibiotic use.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Oct 16, 2024 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Oct 16, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Respond appropriately to all alleged violations.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Oct 16, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Oct 16, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Oct 16, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
PASARR screening for Mental disorders or Intellectual Disabilities
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Oct 16, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Coordinate assessments with the pre-admission screening and resident review program; and referring for services as needed.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Oct 16, 2024 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jul 18, 2024 · Full report (PDF)
Read the full inspection reports on Medicare.gov Each inspection there has a “Read the full report” link with the inspectors’ written findings.
About this facility
- Address
- 3201 Wall Blvd
Gretna, LA 70056 - CMS certification #
- 195309
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 151
- Avg residents/day
- 94.2
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1995-01-01
- Setting
- Urban
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Location and nearby
Explore the area around Bayside Healthcare Center using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Transportation
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2020
- Emergency In FEMA's high-risk flood area (Zone AE)
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Bayside Healthcare Center says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Provides transportation.
We offer all of our residents wheelchair and nonemergency medical transportation to and from medical and non-medical appointments at no additional cost.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room.
Our Rehab-to-Home unit offers private and semi-private rooms to patients.
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026)
Staff pay and workplace safety
Federal records about how the employer here treats its staff.
Federal wage and hour cases
The Department of Labor checks that staff are paid minimum wage and overtime as the law requires.
- Findings for Jan 21, 2020 to Jan 20, 2022. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $19,641 owed to 65 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Bayside Healthcare Center (Bayside Senior Care LLC). Case 1954805.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data, loaded Oct 15, 2026. Concluded cases only. The dates are the period in which DOL found violations, not when the case opened or closed. Back wages are what the employer agreed to pay; penalties are what DOL assessed. DOL does not publish a page for each case, so search the dataset by case number.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Touro Infirmary, New Orleans. 5.5 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Willow Wood at Woldenberg Village, New Orleans. 3.6 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Acts Home Health Care, Inc., Gretna. 3.8 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Walgreens. 1.0 mile away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 70056 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Southern Kidney Specialists - Gretna LLC, Gretna, 1.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Davita Marrero Dialysis, Harvey, 3.4 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Davita Oakwood Dialysis Center, Gretna, 3.7 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 22 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 70056.
Heart Of Hospice, office in Gretna, 2.2 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
St Margaret'S Home Health And Hospice, office in New Orleans, 8.3 miles away, straight line
Anvoi Hospice, office in Metairie, 10.9 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- New Orleans Physician Services Inc, Marrero. 4.3 miles away, straight line. 1 geriatric medicine doctor listed there.
Distances are straight lines from the community, not driving distance. Hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors come from CMS provider data (CMS, hospital list updated Jul 22, 2026). Star ratings are CMS’s own.
Emergency and natural hazard risk
Public hazard maps for this location. Ask the community about its emergency plan, its generator and where residents would go in an evacuation.
- Flood zone
- Zone AE: 1% annual chance flood area (high risk); base flood elevation set. This is inside FEMA's Special Flood Hazard Area, where flood insurance is required for federally backed mortgages. Base flood elevation -5 Feet NAVD88. (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively high. By hazard: hurricane very high, inland flooding relatively moderate, coastal flooding relatively low, wildfire very low, tornado relatively low, heat wave relatively moderate, earthquake very low. These are FEMA’s ratings for the census tract, compared with tracts nationwide. (FEMA, December 2025)
A flood zone describes the map at this point, not the building's elevation. In an emergency, follow the local emergency management agency.
What we checked
Every public source we searched for this community. “Nothing on record” means we found no record that matched it. A record can be missed when a name or address differs.
| Source | Data as of | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour cases | Oct 15, 2026 | See above |
| OSHA workplace safety inspections since 2016 | Oct 15, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| FEMA flood map | See above | |
| USDA wildfire risk | Apr 15, 2026 | Not shown: FEMA rates wildfire risk here very low |
| FEMA National Risk Index | See above | |
| CMS hospitals, home health, dialysis, hospice and doctors; OpenStreetMap pharmacies | See above | |
| HUD Multifamily Properties - Assisted | Jul 6, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| State Veterans Homes (NASVH directory) | Sep 20, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Hospice - General Information | Aug 19, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| CMS Home Health Care Agencies | May 27, 2026 | Nothing on record |
| The community’s own website | See above |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Bayside Healthcare Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Bayside Healthcare Center an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars, including 1/5 for staffing and 4/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Bayside Healthcare Center staffed?
Bayside Healthcare Center reports 3.14 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Louisiana average of 3.81.
Has Bayside Healthcare Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 4 deficiencies.
How many beds does Bayside Healthcare Center have?
Bayside Healthcare Center is certified for 151 beds.