Timber Ridge Health Center

We were not high on this facility's overall grade or its category ratings. We gave it a D for inspections and that turned out to be its best score. Our inspection grades weigh several factors found on a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This particular nursing home was hit with 3 deficiencies by CMS. The only favorable thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that suggest they caused a threat to resident safety or health. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its nursing grade. Nursing grades are primarily tied to a nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home ended up receiving a a terrible score in our short-term care area. It was given a lowly F in this category. Our short-term care grades are meaningful for people in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Considering its score in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the measures we assessed. Frankly, this was what we expected here. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 3.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar metrics was damning for this facility's short-term care grade.

Switching gears to the next category, this nursing home did not perform very well in this category either. Due to a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is about as as uninspiring as it gets. In a long-term care setting, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nurse's aid hours is vaccines. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 97.54464 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home also keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.