Troy Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing

While we were not high on this nursing home's overall performance, it actually received an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that area with a B+. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection scores. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some can be quite insignificant. While this place had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you that the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

Sadly, this facility only received a D for its short-term care score, which happens to be one of its more respectable category grades. In the category of short-term care, we attempt to qualify measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze a facility's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Given its poor score in this category, we were not stunned to discover this facility provides substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than most other facilities. The last item we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the nursing home. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 4.7 percent of its residents returning home.

This facility's next best category was nursing, but even there it received a grade of just D. This is still a well below average grade. Our nursing grade weighs a handful of factors, but the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in calculating our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.

The final category we looked at is long-term care, where this nursing home was given a rock bottom score here also. Unfortunately, we gave it an F in this area, which is obviously a major concern. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in long-term care it typically means the facility did not perform well in our measures relating to resident care. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination data. Frankly, we were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home vaccinated 79.841896 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is quite a bit lower than what we expected. Surprisingly, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.