Nursing home
Evangeline Oaks Guest House
240 Arceneaux Road, Carencro, LA 70520 · Map
For profit - Corporation · 190 certified beds
Evangeline Oaks Guest House is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Carencro, Louisiana. CMS rates it 1 out of 5 stars overall (1/5 for staffing, 1/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 3.35 hours per resident per day, below the Louisiana average of 3.81. Its most recent inspection on May 8, 2025 cited 22 deficiencies.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How Evangeline Oaks Guest House 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) | 3.35 | 3.81 | 3.89 | below avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.14 | 0.32 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.10 | 2.32 | 2.34 | below avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 74.3% | 48.0% | 46.4% | above avg |
| Deficiencies cited, last inspection | 22.0 | 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.
What inspectors found at Evangeline Oaks Guest House
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
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Feb 24, 2026 · 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 · Feb 24, 2026 · 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 · Feb 24, 2026 · Full report (PDF) - 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 · Aug 27, 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 · Aug 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to voice grievances without discrimination or reprisal and the facility must establish a grievance policy and make prompt efforts to resolve grievances.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Aug 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Aug 27, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jul 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 · Jul 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 · Jul 29, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · May 8, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Post nurse staffing information every day.
Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies · May 8, 2025 · 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
- 240 Arceneaux Road
Carencro, LA 70520 - CMS certification #
- 195578
- Ownership
- For profit - Corporation
- Certified beds
- 190
- Avg residents/day
- 79.5
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 2003-04-11
- Setting
- Urban
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Location and nearby
Explore the area around Evangeline Oaks Guest House using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Website says Respite stays, nurse 24 hours a day, works with hospice, transportation, secured outdoor area
- Staff pay 1 federal wage case with violations found, since 2003
Full public records, with dates and sources
Care and services
From the community’s website
What Evangeline Oaks Guest House says about itself, quoted from its own site. We have not checked these claims against licensing records. Ask about each one on a tour.
- Offers respite or short-term stays.
Respite care.
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Nurse on site: 24 hours a day.
EOGH nursing home facility provides 24-hour nursing care to help manage daily medical and medication needs, and assistance with activities of daily living.
(page, checked Oct 12, 2026) - Offers hospice care on site or works with hospice providers.
Hospice care.
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Provides transportation.
Transportation services for medical appointments and community outings.
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Has a secured outdoor area.
Secure courtyards for your outdoor enjoyment as well as comfortable sunrooms for personal time and reflection.
(page, checked Oct 15, 2026) - Apartment types named: private room, semi-private room.
We offer private rates for a private room as well as for semi-private rates.
(page, checked Oct 12, 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 Mar 23, 2003 to Mar 19, 2005. Violations found: Minimum wage, Overtime. Back wages: $4,221 owed to 44 employees. Employer as DOL recorded it: Evangeline Oaks Retirement Home (Carencro Nursing Home). Case 1398303.
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 University Hospital And Clinics, Lafayette. 6.3 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 3 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Courtyard Manor Nurse Care Center & Assisted Liv, Lafayette. 2.2 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Complete Home Health, Inc., Lafayette. 5.9 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Walmart Pharmacy. 0.8 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 70520 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Dci - Kidney Treatment Options Ctr, LLC (Ktoc), Lafayette, 4.3 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Fmcna - East Lafayette, Lafayette, 6.5 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 1 of 5 stars)
Fmcna - Sunset, Sunset, 7.0 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 3 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 15 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 70520.
Hospice Of Acadiana Inc, office in Lafayette, 7.0 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 5 of 5 stars)
Hospice Compassus - Lafayette, office in Lafayette, 7.2 miles away, straight line
St Joseph Hospice Of Acadiana, LLC, office in Lafayette, 7.4 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- Lsuhn Billing LLC, Lafayette. 6.3 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
- 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 very high, inland flooding relatively high, wildfire relatively 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 relatively 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 Evangeline Oaks Guest House a good nursing home?
CMS gives Evangeline Oaks Guest House 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 Evangeline Oaks Guest House staffed?
Evangeline Oaks Guest House reports 3.35 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Louisiana average of 3.81.
Has Evangeline Oaks Guest House had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 22 deficiencies.
How many beds does Evangeline Oaks Guest House have?
Evangeline Oaks Guest House is certified for 190 beds.