Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a senior living facility located in Copperas Cove, Texas. The city has a population of 35,534 people. Featuring an overall grade of B-, this is likely a middle of the pack nursing home. Based on our ratings, this facility has some redeeming qualities. Lastly, this nursing home's ownership changed in the last year, so we will need to monitor it to confirm it maintains respectable levels of care.
Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Please note our records indicate that Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center has changed ownership recently and while our data on this page is up-to-date there is a chance that the quality of this facility may change under new management.
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Limited Liability company
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our best scores in this category with a grade of A+. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 4 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.
Long-term Care Quality
In addition, we awarded this nursing home a B+ in our long-term care category. This happens to be one of our more impressive grades. For long-term care residents, the nursing home's primary goal is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccinations. This facility provided the pneumonia vaccine to 92.85715 percent of its patients. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.
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Nurse Quality
This nursing home's nursing grade appears to be one of its better features. The facility received a grade of C in this category. When computing our nursing ratings, we analyze both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This facility provides only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure as it is well below average. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based measures, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this place performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is generally a good indicator that a facility has sufficient quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a nursing home supplies enough nurses to assist its residents.
Short-term Care Quality
The final category we graded was short-term care, which ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. We gave it an abysmal F for this category, which is clearly very disappointing. Our short-term care ratings are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a broad spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other types of therapy. It appears that this facility was subpar in terms of its quantity of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the staffing figures we looked at. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that just 4.9 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 7.79% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This gauges the percentage of long-term care residents which have pressure ulcers . We bake this statistic into our nursing grades.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who have had a fall which caused major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 1.51% of Patients had UTIs
This indicates the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often associated with facilities with lower levels of hygiene. Better hygiene protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that facilities have incongruent reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 11.48% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. These drugs are used for treating several medical conditions, including dementia.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 22.56% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 4.81% of Patients
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents showing signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 94.64% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 17.1% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 16.36% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of residents that maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 1.67 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care. There is a correlation between avoiding hospitalizations and the overall quality of care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 16.36 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 11.4 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of nursing home care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Hill Country Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 66.86% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint measures the percent of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many would argue this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Adventhealth Central TexasAcute Care Hospitals 5.64 miles away2201 S Clear Creek Road Killeen Texas 76542Voluntary non-profit - Church(254) 526-7523
- Darnall Amc (Ft Hood)Acute Care - Department of Defense 7.06 miles away36000 Darnall Loop Fort Hood Texas 76544Department of Defense(254) 288-8000
- Seton Medical Center Harker HeightsAcute Care Hospitals 12.94 miles away850 W Central Texas Expressway Harker Heights Texas 76548Proprietary(254) 953-8342
- Adventhealth Rollins BrookCritical Access Hospitals 17.78 miles away608 North Key Avenue Lampasas Texas 76550Voluntary non-profit - Church(512) 556-3682
Nearby Dialysis
- Killeen Kidney Center8.86 miles away726 S Fort Hood St Killeen Texas 76541CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 29 (254) 554-3366
- Scott & White Killeen Dialysis Center10.02 miles away3701 Scott & White Drive Killeen Texas 76541Dialysis Stations: 18 (254) 680-1371
- Scott & White Killeen Dialysis West10.43 miles away2201 South w.s. Young Drive Suite 101-B Killeen Texas 76543CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 12 (254) 501-6467
- Fresenius Medical Care Harker Heights13.01 miles away625 W Central Texas Expressway Harker Heights Texas 76548Dialysis Stations: 20 (254) 690-0613
- Fresenius Medical Care Lampasas16.96 miles away1202 Central Texas Expressway Lampasas Texas 76550Dialysis Stations: 12 (512) 556-4101