Triple Creek Retirement Community

In addition to receiving a great overall rating, this nursing home performed even better in the area of inspections which is associated with the nursing home's recent government inspection reports. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that area, which is one of our highest grades. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in determining our inspection ratings is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This tells you the inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

We also gave this facility a score of A- for our short-term care grade. In forming our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to formulate a measure for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 6.6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the nursing home on a permanent basis.

The next highest grade we gave this nursing home came in the category of nursing, where we gave it a grade of B-. This wasn't quite as good as some of its other scores, but a grade in this range is not the end of the world. We assessed the levels of nurses working for the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours the nurses worked with patients, in computing our score in this category. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Lastly, while this place got docked a bit for nursing hours, it excelled in a few of our quality-based metrics. With fewer than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it did very well in this metric.

The final category we looked at was long-term care, which proved to be this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this facility a grade of D in that area. Sadly, this score pulled down the nursing home's overall grade to some degree. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in this category may not provide the type of consistent 24/7 care that some other nursing homes offer. In addition to looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. We were a bit concerned this nursing home provided the vaccine to only 83.63637 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This is its best score in this category.