Avalon Place Trinity

Avalon Place Trinity is an average-sized facility in Trinity, Texas. We awarded this facility an overall grade of D. A grade in this range typically suggests a few red flags. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Trinity. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this facility's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. We discuss inspections in the next section.

While we were fairly low on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of A for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid places with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This facility's next highest area ended up being long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a C. In computing our long-term care ratings, we look at the personal care received by the facility's patients. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 98.65471 percent of its residents. The last datapoint we looked at was the nursing home's hospitalization rate. We found that this nursing home had 4.12 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this figure is somewhat concerning, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes based on the medical complexity of residents.

The third category we graded is short-term care, in which this nursing home was given an F. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Not surprisingly, we discovered that this nursing home provides significantly less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than a typical nursing home. Finally, we assessed the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 34 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

The last area we scored was nursing. This facility was given a very poor grade of F in this category. Our nursing score looks at the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of skill of those nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. With just 3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, this facility's nurse staffing levels were well below the national average. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this place also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing ratings. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This place had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these metrics hurt this facility's nursing rating significantly.