Hillside Heights Rehab Center

On top of being a quality nursing home overall, this facility really excelled in nursing, where it received a grade of A-. The nursing category consists of several subcategories, many of which are tied to nursing hours. This nursing home averages 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures 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 performed well in the area of short-term care. Indeed, we awarded it a score of A- for that category, which happens to be one of our most elite scores. Our short-term care grades are likely more meaningful for residents in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation generally mandates additional skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last datapoint we assessed in this category is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.5 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned a grade of B+. Few facilities performed better in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent risk to patient health or safety. A few relatively minor deficiencies aren't necessarily something to panic about.

The last area we assessed was long-term care, where this facility was given a C. This actually turned out to be this nursing home's least impressive category. This is still not a bad grade. Our long-term care grade is typically used to judge a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home vaccinated 99.42197 percent of its patients, which is a very solid percentage. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.