Twining Hall

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. Perhaps the most important factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the most severe deficiencies involving health risks or even death. This particular nursing home received 6 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a good inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

Among its many impressive grades, this facility received an excellent nursing grade. In fact, we gave it a grade of A in that category. Nursing scores are primarily based on the nursing home's nurse staffing. This facility provided 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility 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 many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The third category we graded is short-term care. This nursing home was awarded a very positive short-term care score, with a grade of B+ in the area. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to assess indicators of a facility's rehabilitation services. We look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the number of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 4.5 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The last category we analyzed proved to be this nursing home's weakest category. However, even in its weakest link we still awarded it a decent grade of B- in long-term care. For prospective residents seeking a permanent place to live rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 79.31035 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is significantly less than what we were hoping for. Fortunately, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.