Hill Country Care Center

Hill Country Care Center is a nursing home located in Junction, Texas, a city with a total of 3,944 people. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B, which is a quality grade. You can definitely do much worse than this place. Fortunately, this place didn't have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. Additional information about these categories can be found below.

One of the main reasons this turned out to be a strong nursing home is that it earned a very impressive long-term care grade. In fact, long-term care was its best grade. In that area, we gave this nursing home an impressive grade of A-. When nursing homes receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for resident care and suggests that the nursing home is well-staffed with nurses aids. After looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.14815 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which is far higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. We found that this facility had 2.97 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this admittedly wasn't as favorable as most of its other scores in this category, this number can be skewed for some nursing homes based on the medical complexity of patients.

An additional quality feature for this facility is that it was given a very positive short-term care grade. Indeed, this wound up being its second best category grade. In this area, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+. In crafting our short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. The objective is to create a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. We weren't able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. Finally, we considered the number of residents who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. Our nursing grade features a host of datapoints. The most important one is the amount of time nurses spent with residents. This particular nursing home provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at certain nursing quality-based metrics in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these metrics as good measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

Lastly, we looked at this nursing home's inspection rating This was not one of this nursing home's better areas. We gave it a grade of C in this area. This isn't a terrible grade in this category. It simply wasn't at the same level as some of this nursing home's other category grades. Inspection grades weigh a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. This facility was hit with 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in any of the categories labeled G through L. This tells you inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies to be an imminent risk to patient health or safety. We didn't find anything on this place's inspection report to be too concerning.