Hillsdale Park Rehab Center

Hillsdale Park Rehab Center is located in Hillsdale, Pennsylvania. The city has 135 people. With an overall grade of D, this is a lower end nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Hillsdale. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's report card, you can continue reading to find out about its category grades. We discuss inspections in the next section.

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually excelled in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A- for that area, which is one of our best scores. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in calculating these inspection grades. One key factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some are quite minor. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors did not consider any of these deficiencies to cause an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies aren't the end of the world.

This nursing home's long-term care score ended up being one of its better features. The nursing home was awarded a grade of B- in this category. For prospective residents in need of a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. One of the criteria we considered after nursing hours was vaccines. We were a bit bothered by the fact that this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to only 84.18973 percent of its residents. Unfortunately, this place's hospitalization rate was worse than we hoped. We found that this nursing home had 2.49 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this figure is somewhat concerning, this statistic can be skewed for some facilities based on the medical complexity of residents

As it turns out, this nursing home only earned a grade of D for its short-term care rating, which is not one of our better scores. In determining our short-term care scores, we look at a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is generally a meaningful assessment of a nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Surprisingly, this nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. Clearly its shortcomings were more quality-based. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients that ultimately returned home from this nursing home. This facility didn't fare nearly as well here as it did in our staffing measures. In fact, we found that just 27.4 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home. This figure was quite a bit off the national average.

This nursing home's weakest category was nursing, which is the last category we assessed. In this category, we gave this facility a grade of just D. Our nursing score assesses the facility's nurse staffing levels. We weigh both the levels of skill of the nurses and the quantity of hours spent with residents. This nursing home offered a meager 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its subpar totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't fare as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing scores. We looked at the percent of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility had more pressure ulcers and falls than the average facility.