Trinity Skilled Care Center

Located in Steubenville, Ohio, Trinity Skilled Care Center is one of nine available facilities in this city. It looks like this nursing home is among the top facilities we looked at. Being awarded an A+ in our grading scheme requires superb marks across the board. We also wanted to point out that this nursing home is located in a hospital. Typically, this means that more intensive healthcare services are available. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's exemplary report card is its short-term care score. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph.

One of the many reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it received an A+ short-term care grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. With our short-term care score, we try to forge a valuable measure for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's offerings of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Remarkably, this facility provides approximately one and a half times as many hours of services from physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we assessed. This is usually an encouraging sign. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that it outperformed the vast majority of nursing homes in the country with 59.7 percent of its patients returning home. This is a significantly higher rate than most facilities.

In addition, this facility received high marks in the area of nursing. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A+. Nursing scores are based in large part on nurse staffing levels. This place provided 6.7 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which is among the better totals in the country. A significant portion of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most highly skilled levels of nurses. We are very impressed by these figures. In addition to providing high levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality measures we assessed. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any facility in Ohio in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as good indicators of the quality of nursing care being provided.

The next area we looked at was long-term care. This facility also was given an A+ long-term care grade, rendering it one of the few facilities to be given more than one A+ category scores. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. On top of assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Unfortunately, we were not able to find information on vaccination rates. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

In addition, this facility also earned a nearly flawless inspection. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of A. With this impressive grade, this place is one of the few facilities in Ohio to earn straight A's. Our inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we rely on is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher scores in this category usually have few of these severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.