Located in Hillsdale, Michigan, Hillsdale Community Health Center is one of just two available facilities in this city. This turns out to be an A+ facility, which is the most impressive score that we offer. We were so impressed with this facility that we rated it as one of the top 500 nursing homes in the country. This facility also received strong scores in all of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Hillsdale Community Health Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- No Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Other
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Short-term Care Quality
On top of receiving a great overall grade, this nursing home also received an A+ short-term care grade. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze the facility's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This grade is often a useful measure of a facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who ultimately returned home from this nursing home. We found that 7.2 percent of this facility's residents returned home.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility also received an A+ long-term care grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive several A+ category grades. Facilities that excel in this category tend to provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. One of the criteria we considered in addition to nursing hours is vaccinations. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This is a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
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Nurse Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. The nursing grade weighs a handful of factors, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This particular nursing home 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 place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Facility Inspections
Adding to its impressive category grades, this facility also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A. This finished off a straight A report card for this place. Inspection ratings account for a host of factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher scores in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hillsdale Community Health Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 4.55% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of patients that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin caused by remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 9.76% of Patients had Serious Falls
This statistic is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who had falls resulting in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing nursing ratings.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 1.22% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely linked to lower quality nursing care. Better hygiene protocols reduces the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this statistic is affected by by the fact that facilities have different reporting standards for infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 12.99% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This metric indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who were given antipsychotic medication. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a facility is using these medications to subdue residents in situations where such medications aren't medically indicated. Nevertheless, some facilities need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 16.22% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that were administered antianxiety medication. These medications are commonly given to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 3.7% of Patients
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Many in the industry would argue this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 100% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 7.14% of Patients
This is the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 11.89% of Residents
This indicates the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a great sign for residents' well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 11.89% of Residents Rehospitalized
This is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 18.4% of Patients
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Hillsdale Community Health Center, 70.86% of Resident
This is the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living often correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Nearby Hospitals
- Hillsdale HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0 miles away168 S Howell Street Hillsdale Michigan 49242Voluntary non-profit - Private(517) 437-4451
- Promedica Coldwater Regional HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 18.47 miles away274 E Chicago St Coldwater Michigan 49036Government - Local(517) 279-5400
Nearby Dialysis
- Fmc - Hillsdale4.2 miles away781 Olds St Jonesville Michigan 49250Dialysis Stations: 12 (517) 849-7474
- Fmc - Coldwater19.77 miles away360 E Chicago St Ste 112 Coldwater Michigan 49036Dialysis Stations: 12 (517) 278-2970