Trinity Ridge

In addition to being a great overall grade, this facility also received A+ health inspections in recent years. Its inspections were virtually flawless. Our inspection scores weigh a host of factors found on a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this area tend to have very few severe deficiencies. We were not able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Contributing to its profile, this facility also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is an above average grade in this category. Long-term care grades of this caliber generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.71429 percent of its residents, which is much higher than most nursing homes. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents 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.

Additionally, this nursing home also was given favorable short-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B. In crafting these short-term care ratings, we quantify the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our purpose is to formulate a barometer for comparing the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. We weren't able to locate information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the number of patients that returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The final area we analyzed was nursing. This nursing home received a favorable nursing rating this year, with a C. Although this isn't as elite as some of its other grades, this remains an acceptable grade for this area. We analyzed the skill-level of nurses working for the facility, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in computing our grade in this area. This nursing home provided just 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This figure is far below the national average. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics. Although this place got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it excelled in a few of these quality measures. With less than five percent of its patients sustaining pressure ulcers, it did well in this metric. This is often an indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as by employing a protocol of moving residents more frequently.