Twin Rivers Health and Rehabilitation

In addition to being a respectable nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. Our inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area usually have few severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 3 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this nursing home's better category scores was in the category of long-term care. In that area, we gave this nursing home a grade of B+. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home administered the vaccine to 89.47369 percent of its patients. This is slightly less than we were hoping for. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we like to see, we were pleased to find place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

As it turns out, this nursing home only received a grade of D for its short-term care score, which is not a very good score. In forming these short-term care scores, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The goal is to create a barometer for sizing up the rehabilitation services of different nursing homes. Given its poor rating in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this place provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This definitely wasn't a strength for this facility. We found that just 4.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their residents are able to return home so this is well below average.

The final category we looked at was nursing, which is this nursing home's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a D in that category. When computing our nursing grades, we analyze both staffing levels and the training levels of the nurses. This facility provided a meager 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident daily. To go along with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents experiencing major falls and pressure ulcers. This nursing home had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average nursing home. This may be a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores and falls are preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, these statistics pulled down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.