Trinity Nursing and Rehabilitation of Granbury

While we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of A for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the facility's overall score. Inspection scores weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. You should avoid nursing homes with a bunch of severe deficiencies flagged. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none were considered severe. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to create an immediate threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

Turning to the area of nursing care, this facility received a grade of just D in this category. Unfortunately, this ended up being one of its better grades. Our nursing grade is largely tied to a facility's level of nurse staffing. This place averaged just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This facility fared well in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We gave this nursing home a grade of just D for our long-term care score. This is well below average in this category. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care ratings. After we finished assessing the amount of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to learn that this nursing home vaccinates 100 percent of its residents for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility also fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. It had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.

The final category we scored was short-term care, where this facility received a rock bottom grade here as well. We gave it a lowly F for this area, which is definitely somewhat alarming. Our short-term care grades are probably more critical for people requiring a nursing home for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically utilizes higher levels of skilled nursing services. This means not just nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Given its poor grade in this area, we were not shocked to learn that this nursing home provides substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other nursing homes. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from this facility. 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.