Hill Top House

In addition to earning a great overall rating, this nursing home also excelled in our inspections category, which is based on the facility's recent inspection reports. We gave it a grade of A for that area. Our inspection scores are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We weren't able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Without having the deficiency data for this facility, it is a challenge to really evaluate the place in terms of this category.

One of the other reasons we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A-. When computing our nursing ratings, we look at both staffing levels and the training levels of those nurses. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This nursing home also received a strong short-term care score. This actually ended up being this nursing home's third most impressive category grade. In that category, we awarded this facility a score of A-. Our short-term care scores are arguably most important for individuals needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing means not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

The final category we graded is long-term care, where this facility was given a B+. This wrapped up a very impressive profile. Only a select few facilities received a B+ or higher in in each area we assessed. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. One of the criteria we considered after nurse's aid hours is vaccines. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccine to 66.66667 percent of its residents. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.