Baton Rouge Senior AdvisorMid City Community Nursing and Rehab is a Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing home with 184 certified beds at 4005 North Blvd., Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge Parish), licensed by the Louisiana Department of Health as nursing home #2203784721. Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab holds a CMS overall rating of 4 of 5 stars in CMS Care Compare data dated October 1, 2026.
How many stars does Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab have from CMS?
Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab holds a CMS overall rating of 4 of 5 stars, with 4 for health inspections, 3 for staffing and 2 for quality measures on CMS's five-star scale.
| CMS / LDH measure | Value |
|---|---|
| CMS overall | 4 of 5 |
| CMS health inspections | 4 of 5 |
| CMS staffing | 3 of 5 |
| CMS quality measures | 2 of 5 |
| Certified beds / residents on an average day | 184 / 120.8 |
| Ownership (CMS) | For profit - Corporation |
| Chain (CMS) | The Carpenter Health Network, 4 facilities |
| Medicare/Medicaid certification since | October 31, 2000 |
| LDH license | #2203784721, Licensed through 09/30/2027 |
| Original Louisiana licensure | June 8, 1967 |
| Administrator of record | Ernest Joseph |
About 121 residents live here on a typical day, filling roughly 66% of certified beds, lower than the 81% midpoint for Baton Rouge-area nursing homes.
What have state inspectors found at Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab?
LDH surveyors, working for CMS, last completed Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab's standard health survey on April 8, 2026, and the cycle shows 3 health deficiencies: 3 standard and 0 complaint-driven.
The cycle before that (survey date March 19, 2025) logged 10 deficiencies, and infection-control inspections added 0 citations. The Baton Rouge-area median for the latest cycle is 4, which puts Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab at or under the regional middle.
In CMS's three-year penalty window it shows 1 fine totaling $44,090 and 2 payment denials.
How do staffing hours at Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab compare locally?
Residents at Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab get roughly 3.20 hours of nursing staff time a day (lower than the Baton Rouge-area median of 3.64); registered nurses account for 0.22 hours (about the same as the Baton Rouge-area median of 0.22).
On weekends the total falls to 2.72 hours per resident per day. Nursing staff turnover is 41.0% (lower than the Baton Rouge-area median of 51.4%). CMS counts 1 administrator departure in its measurement period.
Which nursing homes near Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab should we compare?
At 184 certified beds it is bigger than the East Baton Rouge Parish median of 134. The nearest other certified home is Capital Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Baton Rouge, in the same ZIP code, which CMS rates 2 of 5.
| Facility | Miles away | Licensed capacity | CMS overall rating | Last CMS health inspection | Deficiencies cited |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 4100 North Blvd., 70806 | 0.1 | 123 | 2 of 5 | April 1, 2026 | 1 |
| Sterling Place Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center 3888 North Blvd, 70806 | 0.1 | 144 | 4 of 5 | June 11, 2026 | 2 |
| Baton Rouge General Medical Center, SNF 3600 Florida Blvd., 70806 | 0.4 | 2 | 5 of 5 | April 23, 2026 | 1 |
| St. Clare Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation 7435 Bishop Ott Drive, 70806 | 2.2 | 184 | 2 of 5 | May 6, 2026 | 4 |
| St James Place Nursing Care Center 333 Lee Drive, 70808 | 3.6 | 90 | 4 of 5 | June 17, 2026 | 5 |
What else is near Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab in Baton Rouge?
Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab is in the Downtown, Mid City & the Garden District part of Baton Rouge, and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center is the closest acute-care hospital on LDH's roster, about 3.1 miles away by straight line.
Second closest is Baton Rouge General Medical Center, about 5.9 miles off; distances come from ZIP or CMS coordinates rather than road routes.
East Baton Rouge Parish is inland, so its storm risk is rain flooding along the Amite and Comite rivers and long power outages rather than surge; the August 2016 flood reached neighborhoods from Central to Southeast Baton Rouge. Federal certification rules require an emergency plan with evacuation and shelter-in-place procedures and backup power arrangements, so ask where residents would go and what the generator keeps running.
How should we prepare to tour Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab?
Take the numbers on this page into the tour: ask for the full statement of deficiencies behind the 3 deficiencies recorded on April 8, 2026, even if the count is low.
- With turnover at 41.0%, at or under the regional median, ask which charge nurses have been on the night shift longest.
- Ask what led to $44,090 in CMS fines and how the problem was fixed.
- With occupancy near 66%, ask which halls have open beds and why.
- CMS lists a resident council; ask when it meets and how families take part.
- If Louisiana Medicaid will pay later, confirm Mid City Community Nursing and Rehab keeps Medicaid long-stay beds and how residents receive the $45 monthly Personal Care Needs Allowance.
