Trend Health & Rehab of Carthage

We also found that this facility excelled in our long-term care rating. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in long-term care tend to provide consistent around the clock care to make sure residents are well cared for. After looking at the impressive nursing care provided by this facility, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 99.66443 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility had 2.71 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

This nursing home also earned an A+ inspection score, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This is based on the place's inspection reports. Our inspection ratings are tied to many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent government inspections. Nursing homes that excel in this area have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to cause an immediate risk to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A- in that category. There are numerous criteria within this category. Many of these datapoints reflect levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided 5.1 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very impressive figure which typically leads to better quality care. Lastly, this nursing home was also above average in each of the major quality measures we assessed in this category. By way of illustration, it performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

The final category we graded is short-term care, where this nursing home was given a B-. This is this facility's least impressive area. This is still not the end of the world. In the category of short-term care, we strive to qualify indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We assess the facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and physical and occupational therapists. This nursing home employs both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities employ these skilled professionals. The final measure we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 41.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.