Hill Country Care Center

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really fared well in our long-term care category, where it received a grade of A-. Few facilities did better in this area. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 98.14815 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is very impressive. Pneumonia sadly is often a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a nursing home doesn't take any chances. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.03 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility received impressive grades in the category of short-term care as well. As a result, we gave it one of our most elite scores in that category with a score of A-. Our short-term care scores are crucial for people needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing includes a wide scope of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We weren't able to find information about this nursing home's registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we assessed the number of residents that eventually returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing grade includes several datapoints, most of which are tied to nursing hours. This facility provided 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

In the last category of government inspections, we gave this facility a C for this category. Our inspection scores are based on items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are an important thing to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to resident safety. This facility had 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident safety or health. We did not find anything on this place's inspection reports to be too alarming.