Hillside Nursing Center of Wak is a large nursing home located in Wake Forest, North Carolina. It looks like this nursing home is one of the most impressive nursing homes we found. A grade in this range requires top-notch marks across the board. We were so impressed with this facility that we ranked it in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the nation. As you will see below, this place also performed well in our category ratings. It is hard to poke holes in this nursing home's profile.
Hillside Nursing Center of Wak
- Nursing Home
- Assisted Living
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
- Offers Outpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pain Management
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
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.
Long-term Care Quality
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.
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Short-term Care Quality
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.
Nurse Quality
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.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hillside Nursing Center of Wak Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 10.09% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percentage of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 3.86% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients who sustained a fall resulting in major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 3.21% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percentage of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are routinely caused by nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. More frequent bathing reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this statistic is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 11.74% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are administered to residents for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias. Sadly, in some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 22.05% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term patients which are given antianxiety drugs. These medications are given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 3.01% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents demonstrating signs of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 87.89% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of patients who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 18.87% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 24.57% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' well-being.
Hospitalizations
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 1.39 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This indicates the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 24.57 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 11.81 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Hillside Nursing Center of Wak, 72.58% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of short-term care patients who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts argue that this is a reasonable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.
Nearby Hospitals
- Duke Health Raleigh HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 12.23 miles away3400 Wake Forest Rd Raleigh North Carolina 27609Voluntary non-profit - Private(919) 954-3000
- WakemedAcute Care Hospitals 14.02 miles away3000 New Bern Ave Raleigh North Carolina 27610Voluntary non-profit - Private(919) 350-8000
- Rex HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.16 miles away4420 Lake Boone Trail Raleigh North Carolina 27607Government - State(919) 784-3100
- Central Regional HospitalPsychiatric 19.27 miles away300 Veazy Rd Butner North Carolina 27509Voluntary non-profit - Church(919) 764-2000
Nearby Dialysis
- Wake Forest Dialysis Center3.32 miles away11001 Ingleside Place Raleigh North Carolina 27614CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (919) 556-0968
- Fmc Eastern Wake3.62 miles away670 Granite Vista Drive Rolesville North Carolina 27571Dialysis Stations: 14 (919) 554-1752
- Fresenius Medical Care Northern Wake4.25 miles away2700 Leighton Ridge Drive Wake Forest North Carolina 27587Dialysis Stations: 16 (919) 554-2359
- Oak City Dialysis9.18 miles away3645 Trust Drive Raleigh North Carolina 27616Dialysis Stations: 10 (919) 876-6827
- Raleigh Dialysis Clinic Inc12.81 miles away3943 New Bern Ave, Suite 100 Raleigh North Carolina 27610CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 43 (919) 231-3146
- Fmc Wake Dialysis Clinic13.58 miles away3604 Bush Street Raleigh North Carolina 27609CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 40 (919) 876-7501
- Bma of Zebulon Inc13.84 miles away465 Stratford Drive Zebulon North Carolina 27597CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 30 (919) 269-8889
- Fms Six Forks Dialysis Clinic14.24 miles away3411 West Millbrook Rd Raleigh North Carolina 27613CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (919) 781-8974