Troy Hills Center

We want to note that this facility received a far better grade for short-term care than it received overall. It received one of our best scores in that category with an A. In our short-term care category, we attempt to forge a fair gauge for rehabilitation. In doing so, we analyze the nursing home's scope of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of long-term care. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our most impressive grades. When facilities receive a score in this range in this category it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 94.054054 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

We also awarded this facility a favorable grade in nursing. This facility earned a grade of B+ in this category, which is one of our better grades. When calculating a nursing home's nursing rating, we look at the number of hours nurses are seeing patients as well as the skill levels of those nurses. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Moving on our last category of inspections, this nursing home received an F here. This score was very detrimental to this facility's overall score. When a nursing home has this bad of an inspection score, you should expect some severe deficiencies on its inspection report. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This nursing home had a deficiency by government inspectors. We were relieved to find that it was not in one of the categories that suggest that it caused a risk to patient safety or health. Finally, we also want to point out that this facility received large government fines recently of over $100,000. This typically means that a nursing home's poor track record spanned multiple years.