Brent B Tinnin Manor

This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to emphasize its excellent government inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Places with higher grades in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient 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 more favorable category grades came in the area of long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a B+. It actually outpaced most nursing homes in this area. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. After we finished looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 98 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a deadly condition for nursing home residents so we prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This nursing home's third most favorable area ended up being its short-term care score, where it received a C. Short-term care grades are often used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we considered in this category is the number of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The final category we assessed was nursing, which is this nursing home's worst area. We gave this facility a D in that area. Naturally, this category pulled down the nursing home's overall profile to a certain degree. There are a host of factors included in this area. Many of these criteria reflect the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. 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. In addition to receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this place was a bit less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients suffering pressure ulcers and found that this nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in this statistic.