Trinity Healthcare Residence

This place did not perform quite as poorly in long-term care. We awarded it a grade of C for that category. For residents in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 98.61591 percent of its patients, which is a very respectable statistic. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

This facility excelled in our nursing category, where it received an D. There are a number of datapoints included in this category. Most of the datapoints relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This facility offered only 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient each day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This facility performed well in terms of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We awarded this nursing home a grade of just D for our short-term care rating. This is not one of our better scores. Short-term care scores are important for residents requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing services. This includes a wide scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. With a grade this poor in this category, we weren't stunned to discover this place was below average in two of the key staffing figures we assess. In fact, it offered significantly fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

Unfortunately, this nursing home did not receive a favorable inspection grade. We gave it just a just D in this category. Inspection scores relate to a nursing home's government inspection reports. We weight poor inspection grades heavily in our assessment. Since the inspections are completed by independent government inspectors, we consider this information to be reliable. One of the most significant factors in assessing inspection reports is deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This facility had 4 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we can say is that none of these deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a risk to patient health or safety. Lastly, we also want to point out that this facility received large government fines of more than $100,000. This typically suggests that a nursing home's bad performance has been an issue for multiple years.