Avalon Place Trinity

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this place also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be quite minor. This facility received 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to create an imminent risk to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to this nursing home's list of accomplishments, it also was given a fine long-term care grade. We awarded them an elite strong of A in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is a good sign for patient care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses and aids. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

The third highest area we gave this nursing home in any area came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a C. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more important for individuals needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates more skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home, which is actually below average.

This facility's least impressive category is nursing, which is the final category we scored. For this category, we gave this nursing home a D. Our nursing score is based on numerous factors. The most important variable is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. With only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This facility performed well when it comes to minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.