Trellis Paradise

One of the many reasons this ended up being a great nursing home is it earned an impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections ended up being its best category. In that area, we awarded this nursing home an A. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we have deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its first-rate achievements in other areas, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for our long-term care rating. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. On the whole this looks like a solid option for long-term care.

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A-. Our nursing grade focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We consider both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a system of moving a patient more often.

In the final category we analyzed, this nursing home received an impressive grade grade of B+ in our short-term care category. With this score, the facility rounded out a first-rate report card. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is often a fair measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's residents returned home.