Trinity Grove

In addition to performing well in its overall grade, this nursing home performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection grades. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies are relatively 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.

We also gave this facility a score of A- for our short-term care score. Our short-term care grade is generally used to score a facility's rehabilitation services. To have high-end rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this facility. We found that 6.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.

Turning to an additional strength for this nursing home, we awarded them one of our stronger scores in our long-term care category as well, with a B. Long-term care scores of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine healthcare services. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 95.22059 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is better than the average nursing home. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

The last area we looked at is nursing, where this nursing home was awarded a grade of B-. Although this is its weakest category rating, this is nevertheless not a major area of concern. In computing a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are seeing patients and the levels of training of the nurses. 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, we look at quality-based metrics, such as the percent of patients who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. Sometimes these metrics are indicators of the quality of nursing care.