Nursing home
Claiborne Healthcare Center
1536 Claiborne Ave., Shreveport, LA 71103 · Map
For profit - Corporation · Part of Nexion Health (52 facilities) · 81 certified beds
Claiborne Healthcare Center is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Shreveport, Louisiana. CMS rates it 1 out of 5 stars overall (1/5 for staffing, 1/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.37 hours per resident per day, below the Louisiana average of 3.81. Its most recent inspection on Jan 29, 2025 cited 11 deficiencies.
- 2 fines totaling $112,947In CMS records: 2 total penalties.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Claiborne 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) | 3.37 | 3.81 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.22 | 0.32 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.06 | 2.32 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | —% | 48.0% | 46.4% | — |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 11.0 | 8.3 | 9.5 | above 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.
Penalties in CMS records: 2 fines totaling $112,947, 2 total penalties.
What inspectors found at Claiborne 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
Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Apr 2, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop and implement policies and procedures to prevent abuse, neglect, and theft.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Apr 2, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Keep all essential equipment working safely.
Environmental Deficiencies · Jan 29, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Jan 29, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident’s drug regimen must be free from unnecessary drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jan 29, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Provide basic life support, including CPR, prior to the arrival of emergency medical personnel , subject to physician orders and the resident’s advance directives.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 29, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jan 29, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Jan 29, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Have the Quality Assessment and Assurance group have the required members and meet at least quarterly
Administration Deficiencies · Jan 29, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · Jan 29, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide care and assistance to perform activities of daily living for any resident who is unable.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jan 29, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Actual 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 · Apr 30, 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
- 1536 Claiborne Ave.
Shreveport, LA 71103 - CMS certification #
- 195316
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 81
- Avg residents/day
- 65.1
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1995-02-01
- Chain
- Nexion Health (52 facilities)
- Setting
- Urban
Part of Nexion Health
Nexion Health operates 52 nursing facilities across the United States. View all Nexion Health facilities →
Not SLA enrolled. This facility hasn’t enrolled in resident survey verification. Learn about enrollment →
Location and nearby
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Other public records
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2003
Full public records, with dates and sources
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 May 23, 2003 to May 25, 2005. Violations found: Overtime. Back wages: $8,355 owed to 95 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Nexion Health (Nexion Health Inc.). Case 1407600.
DOL also concluded 1 case here with no violations found, most recently for a period ending May 19, 2006.
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
- Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport, Shreveport. 0.2 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 2 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Magnolia Manor Nursing and Rehab CTR, LLC, Shreveport. 0.1 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Hme Hlth Dept Willis Knighton, Shreveport. 1.1 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Mitchell's Drug Store. 0.3 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 71103 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Dci - Shreveport, Shreveport, 0.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Fmcna - Shreveport Regional, Shreveport, 0.6 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 2 of 5 stars)
Fmcna - Dialysis Ctr Of Shreveport, Shreveport, 0.8 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 2 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 11 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 71103.
Gentiva, office in Bossier City, 3.1 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars)
Lifepath Hospice Care Services, LLC, office in Shreveport, 4.5 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars)
Nightingale Hospice, office in Bossier City, 5.4 miles away, straight line - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Access Medical Clinic Arkansas LLC, Hope. 81.8 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
- Outside the high and moderate risk flood areas on FEMA's flood map (Zone X, minimal flood hazard, or not studied). (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively high. By hazard: hurricane relatively moderate, inland flooding relatively high, wildfire very low, tornado relatively moderate, heat wave relatively high, earthquake relatively moderate. 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 | No plain statements of services found |
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Frequently asked questions
Is Claiborne Healthcare Center a good nursing home?
CMS gives Claiborne Healthcare Center an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars, including 1/5 for staffing and 1/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is Claiborne Healthcare Center staffed?
Claiborne Healthcare Center reports 3.37 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Louisiana average of 3.81.
Has Claiborne Healthcare Center had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 11 deficiencies.
How many beds does Claiborne Healthcare Center have?
Claiborne Healthcare Center is certified for 81 beds.