Trinity Elms

Trinity Elms is an average-sized non-profit nursing home in Clemmons, North Carolina. This nursing home turns out to be a highly rated facility, with an overall grade of B+. Based on our assessment, this nursing home ought to meet the needs of most people. The best aspect of this facility's impressive profile is its inspection reports. We discuss inspections in the next section

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this place had some deficiencies on its report, none were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

This nursing home is also above average in the area of short-term care, where it was given a score of B+. It outpaced most facilities in this area. In our short-term care rating, we seek to create a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation. In this process, we assess the facility's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. One of this nursing home's strength is that it offers more hours of physical therapy per week to its residents. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the nation in this area with 52 percent of its patients able to return home.

This facility also was given a favorable long-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it an above average grade of B in this area. When nursing homes receive this kind of grade in this category it is a good sign for resident care and suggests that the facility is well-staffed with nurses and aids. After considering the impressive nursing hours and other staffing provided by this facility, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is significantly higher than most nursing homes. This combination proved to be effective as this place was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. While it had 1.78 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, its risk adjusted statistic was better than most nursing homes due to it having more complicated patients.

The last area we graded is nursing. In this category, we gave this facility a solid grade of B-. This proved to be this nursing home's least impressive category. We weighed the skill-level of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our grade in this area. This particular facility provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis, which was among the higher totals we found. Lastly, we also factored some quality measures into our nursing grades. Specifically, we looked at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.