Twin City Health Care

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings are tied to items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that excel in this category typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In addition, this facility also was given favorable long-term care grades in our assessment. Indeed, we gave it one of our better grades in that area, with a grade of B+. Facilities that receive this kind of grade in long-term care typically provide consistent around the clock care to make sure patients are kept in good health. On top of considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 92.810455 percent of its residents. This is somewhat below what we were hoping for but still a respectable percentage. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

The next best area we awarded this facility in any category came in the category of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess 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 create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we assessed the percentage of residents that who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well below average.

The last area we analyzed is nursing, which proved to be this facility's weakest category. We gave this nursing home a D in this category. Unfortunately, this score pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. There are quite a few data points included in this area. Most of these factors reflect the quantity of nurse staffing. This place offered a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is well below average. While this nursing home didn't excel in nursing hours, it surprised us in a few of the quality-based assessments in the nursing category, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed better than average in this datapoint, which is one redeeming quality we found in this area.