Trinity Woods

This facility earned a strong overall grade as discussed above, but we especially wanted to point out its excellent long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A in this category. When facilities receive a grade in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to reside on a permanent basis. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 96.90722 percent of its residents, which is very impressive. Pneumonia is often a life or death ailment for nursing home residents so we like it when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

In addition, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Additionally, this facility also was awarded favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave them one of our higher grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients who returned home from the facility. We found that 6.1 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The last category we graded is nursing. We awarded this facility a solid score in this category, with a C. Although this wasn't as dominant as many of this nursing home's other scores, it is still not the end of the world. The nursing grade is based on a handful of components, most of which are associated with nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percent of residents who experienced pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these statistics are indicators of the quality of nursing care.