Lourdes Rehabilitation Center

Inpatient rehabilitation facility · Paducah, KY · Non-profit

Moderate SCI volume
39of 100
SCI.help rehab quality score, ranked #848 of 1104 rated facilities. CMS quality measures (75%) blended with SCI patient volume (25%), plus flat bonuses for CARF Spinal Cord accreditation and SCI Model System designation.
  • 37 SCI patients/yr
  • Moderate SCI volume
  • CMS certified 10/01/1985
  • CCN 18T102

Lourdes Rehabilitation Center is an inpatient rehabilitation facility in Paducah, Kentucky. It reports treating about 37 spinal cord injury patients a year, and scores 39 out of 100 on the SCI.help rehab quality score, ranking #848 of the 1104 US inpatient rehabilitation facilities CMS publishes enough data to rate.

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Volume matters more than almost anything else in SCI rehab. Compare this facility against the rest of Kentucky, and read how to choose an SCI rehab facility.

How the score breaks down

Each CMS measure is converted to a national percentile and direction-normalized so higher is always better. Domain scores are weighted averages of the measures a facility actually reported, so missing data is never scored as worst.

DomainScoreWeight
Function at discharge21 / 10030% of the overall score
Outcomes after discharge46 / 10035% of the overall score
Safety and infection control23 / 10035% of the overall score
Process measures49 / 100not weighted

Volume and SCI specialization are then folded in, because CMS measures cover all rehabilitation patients rather than spinal cord injury specifically:

StepValueWeight
CMS quality composite30.5 / 10075% of the blend
SCI patient volume, as a national percentile63 / 10025% of the blend
Blended39 / 100
Overall39 / 100capped at 100

Based on 13 of 14 measures reported to CMS.


CMS quality measures

Every measure CMS publishes for this facility, with the national median beside it. Percentile is this facility's standing among all 1221 US inpatient rehabilitation facilities, where 100 is best.

CMS measureThis facilityNational medianPercentile
Discharge function score (self-care + mobility)
Function at discharge
45.66%61.87%23
bottom 23% nationally
Discharge self-care score
Function at discharge
46.42%60%26
bottom 26% nationally
Discharge mobility score
Function at discharge
30.57%56.51%12
bottom 12% nationally
Successful return to home/community (risk-standardized)
Outcomes after discharge · No Different than the National Rate
64.64%67.56%27
bottom 27% nationally
Preventable readmission, 30 days after discharge (risk-std)
Outcomes after discharge · No Different than the National Rate
8.82%9.16%68
top 32% nationally
Preventable readmission during the stay (risk-std)
Outcomes after discharge · No Different than the National Rate
4.5%4.69%61
top 39% nationally
New or worsened pressure ulcers (risk-adjusted)
Safety and infection control
3.02%0.64%4
bottom 4% nationally
Catheter-associated UTI (standardized infection ratio)
Safety and infection control
not reported0.8ration/a
C. difficile infection (standardized infection ratio)
Safety and infection control · No Different than the National Benchmark
0ratio0.17ratio78
top 22% nationally
Falls with major injury
Safety and infection control
0.33%0%15
bottom 15% nationally
Staff flu vaccination
Other
89.01%81.03%69
top 31% nationally
Medications reviewed with follow-up
Other
99.02%99.44%38
bottom 38% nationally
Med list given to patient/caregiver
Other
97.33%100%21
bottom 21% nationally
Med list given to next care setting
Other
100%99.77%78
top 22% nationally

Who this facility treats

Annual patient counts by condition, as reported to CMS. Counts under 11 are suppressed by CMS for privacy and appear as "Less than 11".

Condition treatedPatients per year
Stroke102
All other conditions84
Hip or knee replacement, amputation or other bone or joint condition47
Spinal cord disease or condition (non-traumatic)37
Hip or femur fracture32
Brain disease or condition (non-traumatic)19
Brain injury (traumatic)17
Nervous system disorder (excluding stroke)Less than 11
Spinal cord injury (traumatic)Less than 11

Contact and details

Address1530 Lone Oak Road, Paducah, KY, 42003
Phone(270) 444-2684
CMS provider nameLOURDES REHABILITATION CENTER
CMS Certification Number18T102
OwnershipNon-profit

Phone numbers in the CMS provider file are sometimes a corporate or billing line rather than the rehab unit. Call and ask for the spinal cord injury program directly.


Three questions to ask this facility

  • "How many spinal cord injury patients are on the unit right now?" The CMS figure above is a year old by the time it publishes.
  • "What is your protocol for autonomic dysreflexia?" A specialized unit answers instantly. See the AD protocol.
  • "Will I leave with the right wheelchair ordered?" Ask whether seating evaluation happens in-house.

The full list, and what the answers should sound like, is in choosing an SCI rehab facility and what to ask before discharge.


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Where this data comes from

Facility data on this page is from CMS Care Compare — Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) QRP, Provider Data Mar 2026, published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and processed 2026-06-08. CARF Spinal Cord System of Care status is from CARF's public provider directory. SCI Model System designation is from the federally funded SCI Model Systems program. The 100-point score is calculated by SCI.help; the full methodology and the underlying dataset are public.

A quality score is a starting point, not a recommendation. CMS measures cover all rehabilitation patients, not spinal cord injury specifically, and no public dataset captures how good a program is at SCI in particular. Use this to build a shortlist, then call and ask the questions above.