Trinity Elms Health & Rehab

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home has received near flawless inspections recently. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in computing these inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the quantity of deficiencies, as some can be relatively insignificant. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Another one of this nursing home's quality category grades came in the category of long-term care. We awarded them one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of B+. For patients in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to rehabilitation, long-term care grades are very important. After looking at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 91.69675 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is somewhat lower than we were hoping for but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This nursing home's next most favorable category ended up being its short-term care grade, where it was given a B-. Short-term care grades are commonly used to gauge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to offer good rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to offer higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. We were not able to find information on registered nurse or physical therapy staffing for this nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this nursing home. We found that 5 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was actually quite a bit below the national average.

The next category we assessed is nursing, where this facility received a grade of B-. This proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. This is still not a terrible score. The nursing score consists of a handful of factors, however, the main one is the level of nurse hours spent with patients. This place provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a relatively low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based metrics, such as avoiding major falls. While this place did not have as many nursing hours per resident as many other facilities we assessed, it was still better than average in the area of avoiding falls. This is typically an indicator of how carefully a nursing home's nursing staff is tending to its residents. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.