Trinity Glen

On top of receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home also received top notch health inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our best scores in that area, with an A+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in computing our inspection scores. One of those factors is health deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.

Another one of this facility's above average category scores came in the area of long-term care. We gave them one of our higher scores in that area, with a score of B+. For prospective patients looking for a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 82.74854 percent of its residents. This is somewhat lower than we were hoping for. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. Our nursing grade assesses the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of training of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. 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. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly excelled in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It scored well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The next category we graded was short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it an F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. You should not necessarily disregard a nursing home as a result of a single bad grade though. In our short-term care category, we attempt to craft a sound barometer for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the facility's levels of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. It looks like this facility was below average in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The final measure we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 3.4 percent of its residents returning home.