Twin City Health Care

Twin City Health Care is located in Gas City, Indiana. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of F. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Gas City. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive inspection grade. You can continue reading to learn more about inspections and other category scores

Although this facility's overall grade was terrible, it performed well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. Our inspection grades are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid nursing homes that have severe deficiencies associated with risks to resident well being. This particular nursing home received 8 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Included in this facility's host of poor grades was its F in the area of long-term care. For residents in need of a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. Once we assessed the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 99.441345 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.31 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home had fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.

Our next area we assessed is short-term care, in which this facility received an F. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is typically a useful measure of the nursing home's rehabilitation services. Given its grade in this category, we were not surprised to learn that this nursing home was well below average in terms of the quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours offered to its residents based on the figures we assessed. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that just 34 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The final category we graded is nursing. This facility received an abysmal grade of F in this area. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with residents, in determining our score in this category. Quantity of nursing care does not appear to be the problem here. Based on the data, it looks like this place provides an above average 4 hours per patient on a daily basis. This is more nursing care than most places provide. While it fared well in terms of nursing hours, this place received poor scores in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This nursing home was at roughly 1.5 times the national average in both metrics.