Hillside Nursing Center of Wak

On top of receiving a quality overall score, this nursing home also earned excellent inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our highest grades in that category, with an A. Arguably the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection ratings is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a nursing home's inspection reports. Facilities with better grades in this area typically dodged the more severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. While this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its impressive profile, this nursing home also excelled in our long-term care area. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A for that area. Long-term care scores in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. This facility vaccinated 96.710526 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life or death ailment for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Turning the page to our third area, this facility was awarded an excellent short-term care grade. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- in this category. Our short-term care grades are considered to be more critical for people needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally utilizes higher levels of highly-skilled nursing. This means not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

Turning to our fourth category, this nursing home was awarded a highly favorable nursing rating. While this wasn't nearly as impressive as many of its other category grades, this is still one of our more impressive grades we offer. The nursing grade is based on numerous subcategories. The most heavily weighted factor is the number of hours nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a patient at least once a day.