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Hillside Health & Rehabilitation

Nursing Home

Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

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Hillside Health & Rehabilitation's website

4720 23rd Avenue,
Missoula MT 59803

(406) 251-5100

Hillside Health & Rehabilitation is in Missoula, Montana. This city has a total of 90,987 people. Featuring an overall grade of B+, this looks like a strong facility. We ranked this facility as one of the top 50 nursing homes in Montana. Scroll down to see this nursing home's category ratings, which are also quite good. It's hard to find any major flaws in this nursing home's profile.

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Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No CCRC
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
For profit - Partnership
Offers Inpatient Rehab
Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

Personal Care
Home Making
Transportation
Speech Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Nutritional Counseling
Pharmacy
Recreational Therapy
Pain Management

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Awards

Top Nursing Home in Montana Awards 2020

Top Nursing Home in Montana Awards 2021

Best Nursing Home in Missoula, Montana Awards 2021

Facility Inspections

To go along with its favorable overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for our inspection category. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. This place received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered to be severe deficiencies. This tells you that the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Long-term Care Quality

This nursing home was awarded an impressive long-term care score as well. We awarded it one of our better grades in that category with a score of B. When facilities receive a score in this range in long-term care it generally means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.62162 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients out of the hospital. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

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Short-term Care Quality

This nursing home is also strong in the area of short-term care, where it was given a grade of B. It performed better than most facilities in this category. Our short-term care scores are thought to be more important for folks in need of rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally requires additional skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes not only nursing, but also physical and respiratory therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. We weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final measure we considered in this category is the number of patients that ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that 5.3 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Nurse Quality

The final category we graded was nursing, in which this facility was given a grade of B. This facility did not turn out to have any real weak links. There are several subcategories included in this category. Most of these factors are tied to levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also factored a few quality-based metrics into our nursing grades. This place was relatively weak in two of the major areas we focus on, with below average scores for minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care provided.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Hillside Health & Rehabilitation Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 8.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percentage of patients who sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are routinely caused by patients staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 6.76% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of patients that sustained a fall which caused severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 2.03% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be a measure of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care. However, this datapoint may also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to different reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 28.23% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are used for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 22.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are administered to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 7.86% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who are showing depressive symptoms. Many in the industry argue this is a reasonable measure of patient quality of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 97.31% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 7.09% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of the deterioration of a resident's health.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 13.78% of Residents

This indicates the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 13.78% of Residents Rehospitalized

This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the health of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 14.29% of Patients

This tells you the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Hillside Health & Rehabilitation, 58.61% of Resident

This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

Community Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 1.39 miles away2827 Fort Missoula Rd Missoula Montana 59804Voluntary non-profit - Private(406) 728-4100
St Patrick HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.62 miles away500 W Broadway Missoula Montana 59806Voluntary non-profit - Church(406) 543-7271