Nursing home
The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge
14333 Old Hammond Hwy., Baton Rouge, LA 70816 · Map
For profit - Limited Liability company · 129 certified beds
The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge is a Medicare-certified nursing home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. CMS rates it 1 out of 5 stars overall (3/5 for staffing, 2/5 for health inspections). Nurse staffing is 4.19 hours per resident per day, above the Louisiana average of 3.81. Its most recent inspection on Jun 5, 2025 cited 11 deficiencies.
- 1 fine totaling $10,748In CMS records: 1 total penalty.
CMS quality ratings
Ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), updated monthly. 5 stars is the highest quality.
How The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge 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) | 4.19 | 3.81 | 3.89 | above avg |
| RN staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 0.20 | 0.32 | 0.68 | below avg |
| Aide staffing (hrs/resident/day) | 2.81 | 2.32 | 2.34 | above avg |
| Nursing staff turnover | 44.7% | 48.0% | 46.4% | below avg |
| 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.
- Every deficiency from the September 25, 2025 inspection was corrected by October 24, 2025
Penalties in CMS records: 1 fine totaling $10,748, 1 total penalty.
What inspectors found at The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge
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
Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.
Freedom from Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Deficiencies · Sep 25, 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 · Jun 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jun 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.
Infection Control Deficiencies · Jun 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.
Nutrition and Dietary Deficiencies · Jun 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF)
Show all 12 deficiencies
- Potential for harm
Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs.
Pharmacy Service Deficiencies · Jun 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Jun 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Honor the resident's right to request, refuse, and/or discontinue treatment, to participate in or refuse to participate in experimental research, and to formulate an advance directive.
Resident Rights Deficiencies · Jun 5, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections.
Quality of Life and Care Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Potential for harm
Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment.
Resident Assessment and Care Planning Deficiencies · Mar 26, 2025 · Full report (PDF) - Actual 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 · May 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
- 14333 Old Hammond Hwy.
Baton Rouge, LA 70816 - CMS certification #
- 195472
- Ownership
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Certified beds
- 129
- Avg residents/day
- 95.3
- Provider type
- Medicare and Medicaid
- First certified
- 1998-02-01
- Setting
- Urban
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Location and nearby
Explore the area around The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge using Google Maps.
Other public records
- Kitchen 7 inspections by Louisiana Department of Health, Retail Food Program (published by the City of Baton Rouge) since 2023
- Emergency In FEMA's high-risk flood area (Zone AE)
Full public records, with dates and sources
Kitchen inspections
The local health department inspects the kitchen that serves residents. Results are in the agency's own words.
Louisiana Department of Health, Retail Food Program (published by the City of Baton Rouge): Woodleigh of Baton Rouge Kitchen
- Jul 10, 2025 (routine/renewal): No result published.
1 violation
- Hand wash supplies – clean, accessible (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 3109.2 - Hand wash lavatory is not equipped with at least 85ºF water. Rear hand sink
- Apr 21, 2025 (routine/renewal): No result published.
2 violations
- Personal care items (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 3903 - Employees’ personal care items are stored where food equipment, utensils, linens, single service items or single use items may be contaminated.CUPS
- Hand wash supplies – clean, accessible (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 3109.2 - Hand wash lavatory is not equipped with at least 85ºF water. REAR HANDSINK
- Jan 6, 2025 (routine/renewal): No result published.
4 violations
- Equipment construction, good repair (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 2101.1 - Non-food contact equipment is not maintained in good repair.ice build-up in walk-in freezer
- Non-food contact construction (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 2113 - Non-food contact surfaces are not constructed of a corrosion-resistant, non -absorbent, smooth material. dining cart with Rusty chrome in Memory wing tv room and several resident rooms.
- Garbage receptacles (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 3303.2 - Outside receptacles for garbage, etc. did not have tight fitting lids, doors, or covers.
- Floors (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 3701.5 - Floors are not clean.walk-in freezer
- Sep 16, 2024 (routine/renewal): No result published.
2 violations
- Non-food contact surfaces clean (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 2501.2 - Non-food contact surfaces of equipment have an accumulation of dust, dirt, food residue and other debris.
- Floors (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 3701.5 - Floors are not clean.baseboards
- Jun 5, 2024 (routine/renewal): No result published.
2 violations
- Packaged food on un-drained ice (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 1505 - Packaged food is stored in direct contact with ice or water.
- Non-food contact surfaces clean (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 2501.2 - Non-food contact surfaces of equipment have an accumulation of dust, dirt, food residue and other debris.fan
- Feb 19, 2024 (routine/renewal): No result published. No violations listed.
- Nov 16, 2023 (routine/renewal): No result published.
4 violations
- Non-food contact surfaces clean (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 2501.2 - Non-food contact surfaces of equipment have an accumulation of dust, dirt, food residue and other debris. Rear of Convection Oven.
- Walls and ceilings (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 3703.3 - Walls/ceilings or attached equipment are not clean. Ceiling tiles in store room.
- Food storage – 6” off floor, dry, covered (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 1501.4 - Food is not stored six (6) inches off the floor. Chips in storage room.
- Equipment construction, good repair (Non-critical). Inspector’s note: 2101.1 - Non-food contact equipment is not maintained in good repair. Walk in Freezer door gasket has ice build up.
Source: the agency's records, inspections since Oct 16, 2023, as of Oct 15, 2026. Critical: The state's critical violation flag.
Location and nearby care
- Nearest hospital with an emergency room
- Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge. 1.6 miles away, straight line. CMS overall hospital rating: 4 of 5 stars.
- Nearest Medicare nursing home
- Pines Retirement Center of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge. 0.3 miles away, straight line.
- Nearest home health agency office
- Ochsner Home Health Of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge. 1.6 miles away, straight line. Agencies travel to clients, so ask which ones serve this address.
- Nearest pharmacy
- Walgreens. 2.0 miles away, straight line. From OpenStreetMap, which does not list every pharmacy, so one may be closer.
- Area
- USDA classes ZIP code 70816 as metropolitan (metropolitan core).
- Dialysis within 15 miles
- Davita East Baton Rouge Dialysis, Baton Rouge, 1.1 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 3 of 5 stars)
Fkc - O'Neal Lane, Baton Rouge, 1.6 miles away, straight line (CMS rating 4 of 5 stars)
Fmcna - Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, 4.3 miles away, straight line (has a shift starting after 5 pm; CMS rating 5 of 5 stars) - Hospice
- 22 Medicare hospices tell CMS they serve ZIP code 70816.
Hospice Specialists Of Louisiana, office in Baton Rouge, 1.6 miles away, straight line
Notre Dame Hospice Of Greater Baton Rouge, office in Baton Rouge, 2.5 miles away, straight line
Life Source Services Of Baton Rouge, office in Baton Rouge, 2.6 miles away, straight line (CMS family survey rating 4 of 5 stars) - Nearest geriatric medicine practice
- North Oaks Medical Center LLC, Hammond. 32.2 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. (FEMA flood map)
- FEMA National Risk Index
- Overall: relatively high. By hazard: hurricane relatively high, inland flooding relatively high, coastal flooding very low, wildfire very low, tornado very high, heat wave relatively high, earthquake relatively 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 | Nothing on record |
| 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 The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge a good nursing home?
CMS gives The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars, including 3/5 for staffing and 2/5 for health inspections. These ratings come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and are updated monthly.
How is The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge staffed?
The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge reports 4.19 total nurse hours per resident per day, compared with the Louisiana average of 3.81.
Has The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge had inspection problems?
Its most recent CMS inspection cited 11 deficiencies.
How many beds does The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge have?
The Woodleigh of Baton Rouge is certified for 129 beds.