Trinity Care Center

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home excelled in our nursing score. We awarded them an A+ in this category. Nursing grades are based largely on quality and quantity of nursing care. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very 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.

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. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. Fortunately, although this facility had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G through L. This means that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The third category we analyzed is short-term care. This nursing home excelled in our short-term care rating also. We gave them an elite score of A+ in this area. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The fourth area we looked at was long-term care, where this facility was awarded an A. This finished off an elite report card. Not many facilities earned an A- or better in every category. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in long-term care it is usually a good sign for patient care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.