Hillsdale Community Health Center

Hillsdale Community Health Center is a small hospital-based nursing home located in Hillsdale, Michigan. With an overall score of A+, this nursing home is undoubtedly a phenomenal nursing home. In fact, this nursing home has the distinction of being one of the 25 best nursing homes in Michigan. Finally, this is a very consistent nursing home with consistent grades in all of the major categories. More information about its category grades is available below.

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great nursing home is that it earned an A+ in short-term care. This is as good as it gets in this category. In the area of short-term care, we strive to evaluate indicators of a facility's rehabilitation. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, including the ones performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. This nursing home is above the national average both in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents. These are generally good indicators of quality short-term care. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of residents who returned home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Michigan in this area with 71.5 percent of its patients returning home. For most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

This nursing home also received an A+ nursing grade, making it one of the few nursing homes to receive multiple A+ category grades. There are several criteria within this grade. Many of these datapoints reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provides an incredible 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient daily. Out of that total, many of the hours were provided by registered nurses, which is one of the more highly trained levels of nurses. On top of providing high levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. In terms of the percentage of its patients suffering falls resulting in major injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home the country.

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. Inspection ratings weigh several factors found on a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with better scores in this category tend to have few severe deficiencies. While this facility had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This tells you CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

In our final area, this nursing home also was given a very strong long-term care rating, with an A. This rounded out a straight A report card. Long-term care grades in this range generally require both 24/7 care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of really impressive nursing hour statistics, this facility's vaccination record was top notch also. Indeed, this nursing home vaccinated 100 percent of its residents against pneumonia. This combination proved to be successful as this nursing home also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.