Tri-State Village Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

While we gave this facility an abysmal overall score, we gave it a B- for our nursing rating. The nursing grade includes a host of datapoints. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with residents. This nursing home provided just 0 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, our nursing ratings also consider quality-based metrics, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is typically a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Many falls can be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses aids to assist its residents.

Interestingly, this facility's awful overall score can't really be attributed to its inspection reports. We gave it a C for inspections. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection scores. One critical factor is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This nursing home was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories J through L. This tells you inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies to place patient health or safety in immediate harm or jeopardy. In addition to having severe deficiencies, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.

This nursing home also didn't grade out too badly in the area of short-term care. In fact, we awarded it a C in that area, which happens to be among its better grades. Our short-term care scores are crucial for prospective residents seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes more skilled nursing services. This includes a broad range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. We were surprised to find that this facility was below average in the two key staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. It is important to determine whether this is adversely impacting the quality of care. Finally, we looked at the number of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 3.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit below the national average.

The last area we graded was long-term care, is this nursing home's least impressive area. We gave this facility a D in that area. When nursing homes receive a grade in this range in long-term care it typically means the nursing home did not perform well in our quality measures relating to resident care. Once we assessed the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this facility vaccinated 78.82883 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is quite a bit lower than average. To our surprise, this facility actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0.05 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.