Trellis Centennial

Although we gave this facility a poor overall score, we gave it a somewhat respectable score in the area of inspections, where it received a B-. This was certainly better than its other category grades. Inspection ratings are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a risk to the well being of residents. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, CMS cited this nursing home for possible abuse or neglect. Hopefully, its performance improves in the future, but until then we simply can't recommend this facility.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of B- in the area. Nursing ratings are largely based on a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This facility provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient on a daily basis. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is usually an indicator that a nursing home has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

This facility's third best category was short-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a B-. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. In this nursing home's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than the average facility. The hope is that this does not adversely affect the quality of care. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.

The final category we analyzed was long-term care. For this category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of C. In the area of long-term care, we analyze the quantity of services offered by a facility, rather than more sophisticated services. One of the criteria we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. Fortunately, this nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.