Trinity Manor

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it earned an impressive grade in inspections. In fact, inspections turned out to be its best category. In this category, we gave this facility an A. Inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This place was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to resident health or safety. Keep in mind that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that category. Our nursing grade is largely tied to the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by having a system of turning patients more frequently.

The third area we looked at was short-term care. This facility was given a favorable short-term care score, with a B in this area. Short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast scope of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this facility employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 4.8 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The final category we analyzed was long-term care, in which this nursing home received a grade of B. This actually was this facility's least impressive area. A facility is doing something right when their lowest score still is better than most other facilities. Nursing homes that receive this type of grade in this category typically provide consistent 24/7 care to make sure residents are well cared for. On top of considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 96.91358 percent of its patients. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.