Telford Terrace

Telford Terrace is one of a mere three available nursing homes located in Richmond, Kentucky. This facility is ranked among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. In fact, it received the absolute highest grade. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top one percentile of all nursing homes in the United States. If you look further down this page, you will see this facility's category ratings, which appear to be just as impressive as its overall score.

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. Our nursing score includes many datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This place provides an incredible 6.2 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. Out of this total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the most highly trained levels of nurses. In addition to offering high levels of nursing care, this nursing home also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any facility in Kentucky in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We look at these areas as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided.

This facility also received an A+ inspection grade, making it one of the rare places to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This is based on the facility's recent inspections. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a nursing home. Inspection ratings are based on several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these facilities should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In the next area we assessed, this facility received superb marks in the area of long-term care. For this reason, it received one of our best grades in that category with a of A+. Nursing homes that do well in this category tend to provide patients with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. In addition to offering very impressive levels of nursing care and other staffing, this nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 97.297295 percent of its patients. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. This combination proved to be successful as this place also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The last category we looked at is short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of A. This finished off a very impressive profile. Few facilities earned an A- or higher in every single category. In computing our short-term care grades, we scrutinize the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is generally a meaningful assessment of a facility's rehabilitation services. One of this facility's strengths is registered nurse hours. We found that it offers more care from registered nurses to its residents than most facilities. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.