Trinity Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility

In addition to a phenomenal overall grade, this facility also received A+ nursing grade. Our nursing rating focuses on the facility's level of nurse staffing. We factor in both the levels of licensure of the nurses and the amount of time spent with residents. This facility provided 0.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a patient even once per day.

On the list of its many elite grades, this facility was given first-rate long-term care score. In fact, we gave it a score of A in this area. For residents seeking a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 93.33333 percent of its residents. This is a bit below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of B+. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning to the last category, this facility also performed admirably in the short-term care category. We awarded it a grade of B+ for this area. This rounded out a very impressive profile. Our short-term care grades are considered to be more meaningful for folks needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically mandates more skilled nursing. This means not only nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients were able to return home.