Trend Health & Rehab of Meridian

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this facility has received near flawless inspections recently. We gave them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

On the list of its many high-end scores, this nursing home was awarded a top-shelf long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A in that category. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the statistics we considered on top of nurse's aid hours was vaccinations. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccine to 87.341774 percent of its residents. While its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we hoped for, at least this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B+. Our nursing rating is based on the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We consider both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the quantity of hours spent with residents. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can typically be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Switching gears to the fourth area, this nursing home was given a high-end short-term care grade. In fact, we gave it a B+ in this area, wrapping up one of our more favorable profiles. Our short-term care scores are considered to be more critical for residents in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.