Trinity Community

On top of having a decent overall grade, we also want to point out that this facility earned favorable inspections in recent years. We gave it one of our better grades in this category, with a grade of B+. This is a notably better grade than the facility's overall grade. Inspection scores are tied to several items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This place was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe. This indicates that the inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A few minor deficiencies should not stop you from considering a nursing home.

The second highest area we gave this nursing home in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we gave it a B-. Our short-term care grades are thought to be more critical for those needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates more highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this facility provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that just 5.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home. This figure was below average.

This facility received its next best category grade in the area of long-term care. We awarded this nursing home a B- in this area, which is an acceptable score. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for people needing more traditional services related to activities of daily living. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 94.308945 percent of its patients, which is a very solid statistic. This facility keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to the next area, this facility was given a grade of C in nursing, which is a decent grade. There are numerous data points included in this category. Most of these data points relate to levels of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most other facilities. Lastly, although this facility got dinged a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in some of our quality measures. With fewer than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it did well in this area.