Brent B Tinnin Manor

To go along with its favorable overall grade, we awarded this facility an A+ for the area of inspections. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing our inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more important than the number of deficiencies, as some of these end up being quite minor. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this facility's above average category grades came in the category of long-term care. We gave them one of our more favorable grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care tend to provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a deadly condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a nursing home doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's third most favorable category was short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this area. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this area. Short-term care grades are typically used to grade a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have good rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer better levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.

The next category we scored was nursing. We gave this facility a grade of D in our nursing category, making this its least impressive grade. When determining a nursing home's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses commit to patients as well as the levels of training of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. This facility fared well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these metrics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.