Trinity Center at Luther Park

To go along with its decent overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A- for our nursing rating. This score is far more impressive than the facility's overall score. In computing a nursing home's nursing score, we assess the amount of time nurses are with residents and the level of skill of those nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home's second most favorable area is short-term care. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. This is essentially a middle of the road grade in this area. Our short-term care grades are crucial for individuals in need of rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional highly-skilled nursing. This means a broad range of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We were not able to locate registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this nursing home. The final item we considered in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that just 4.4 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. Unfortunately, this was below average.

This facility earned its third best grade in the area of inspections. Inspection ratings are based on a facility's recent inspection reports. We awarded this nursing home a C in this area. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This place was hit with 4 deficiencies on its government inspection report, but none were in category J, K or L. This tells you that inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to place resident safety or health in imminent harm or jeopardy. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

Our next category is long-term care, where we awarded this facility a C in this category. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is an important category. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Frankly, we were a bit alarmed this nursing home provided the vaccine to only 80.91603 percent of its patients. Fortunately, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.