Treviso Transitional Care

While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of B+ for our inspections rating. This grade is much more impressive than the place's overall score. Inspection scores account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid facilities with too many severe deficiencies flagged. While this facility had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This facility received its second highest category grade in the category of long-term care. We gave this nursing home a C in this category, which is a respectable score. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination record. We were optimistic to find that this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. This place keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. The nursing score weighs several datapoints. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This place offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is an alarmingly low total. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality measures in computing our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Switching gears to the final area, this facility really didn't fare well in this area either. With a bottom of the barrel grade of F in short-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to score a facility's performance with rehabilitation. To have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally must offer higher levels of highly skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly skilled individuals. With its score in this area, we weren't surprised to find that this facility was well below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.8 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below the national average.