Hillside Medical Lodge
300 S. Highway 36 Bypass, Gatesville TX 76528 · (254) 865-7575 · 90.54% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Hillside Medical Lodge is in Gatesville, Texas. The city has a population of 23,609 people. This nursing home received an overall grade of C, which is a solid grade. Based on our ratings, there are definitely far worse nursing homes out there. One of the best aspects of this nursing home's profile is its remarkable inspection grade, which we will address in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 128 Beds
CCRC :
Government - Hospital district
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
This facility received a solid overall grade as described above, but we really wanted to point out its excellent inspections in recent years. We gave them an A+ in this category. Inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find information on deficiency's for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.
Long-term Care Quality
Another one of this nursing home's more favorable category grades was in the area of long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a grade of B+. It actually outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Nursing homes that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 96.85715 percent of its residents, which is more than the average nursing home. The last statistic we assessed is the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this place had 1.87 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is middle of the road in this area.
Short-term Care Quality
In addition, we gave this facility an F in the area of short-term care. In computing our short-term care grades, we assess a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. This category is considered to be a fair assessment of the nursing home's ability to rehabilitate patients. Considering its score in this category, we weren't surprised to discover that this facility was well below average in terms of its number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its residents based on the figures we looked at. The final statistic we looked at in this category is the number of patients that who were able to eventually return home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 42.3 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, this was quite a bit below average.
Nurse Quality
The last category we looked at was nursing. We gave it an F in this area, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. This is certainly a major concern. Our nursing score weighs several data points, but the most important consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home offered just 2.7 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is not a very impressive figure. To go along with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had poor scores in many of the quality-based measures we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. For starters, we looked at the percentage of patients having falls which led to major injury. This place was at more than 1.5 times the national average in this statistic. This is quite alarming in light of the fact that many falls could be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of earning a poor nursing rating.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hillside Medical Lodge Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This measures the percentage of long-term residents who have pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of nursing care quality.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percent of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injury are often linked to lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term residents which have experienced urinary tract infections. UTI's could be an indication of poor nursing care. However, this statistic may also be misleading for certain facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This datapoint measures the percent of long-term patients which were administered antipsychotic drugs. Increased usage of these drugs may suggest a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents in scenarios where such medications are not medically required. However, some facilities may need to rely on these drugs due to an increased number of patients with cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given antianxiety medications. These medications are typically prescribed to residents suffering from depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients showing signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of residents that were given the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This indicates the percent of patients that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who maintained mobility.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This indicates the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better