Truman Gardens

This nursing home received a solid overall grade as described above, but it really excelled in nursing care, with an impressive grade of A+ in this category. The nursing rating features a host of datapoints. The most important variable is the amount of time nurses spend with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0.7 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 place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

We also want to draw your attention to the fact that this nursing home was awarded a strong short-term care score. Indeed, we awarded it one of our best scores in that area with a score of A-. In forming our short-term care grades, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our objective is to devise a measure for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various facilities. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This nursing home also excelled in the area of long-term care. For this reason, we gave it a grade of A- in that area, which is one of our most impressive scores. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After looking at the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 92.44186 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is somewhat less than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Moving on the last category of inspections, this nursing home really did not fare well. It received an F in our inspection category. This dragged this facility's overall score down as we heavily weight this category. You should pay close attention to any deficiencies on a facility's inspection reports when it receives this bad of an inspection score. We would pay close attention to the level of severity of the deficiencies. This facility was assessed 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. The only favorable thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that indicate they posed a threat to patient health or safety. Finally, we also want to point out that this nursing home was assessed significant government fines amounting to more than $100,000. This generally means that a poor track record has been an issue for multiple years.