Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home is located in Beloit, Kansas, a city with a total of 4,721 people. This nursing home proved to be a decent facility, with an overall grade of C. Based on our ratings, there are certainly far worse places out there. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is short-term care, which is addressed in the next section.
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Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home
- Nursing Home
- Independent Living
- Assisted Living
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Respite Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Short-term Care Quality
We would like to point out that this nursing home received favorable marks in our short-term care category this year. We awarded them one of our better grades in that category, with a B. This proved to be the facility's top score and helped its profile overall. Short-term care grades are commonly employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to offer highly scored rehabilitation services, facilities generally must provide higher levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every nursing home employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the number of residents who who were able to eventually return home from the nursing home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
Nurse Quality
This facility's second best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of B-. Our nursing grade is mostly associated with a nursing home's nurse staffing. This place provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per patient each day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility surprisingly fared better in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at. It performed well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. Many consider these areas to be indicators of the quality of nursing care. In some cases, the quality of nursing care is just as important as the quantity of hours of care offered.
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Facility Inspections
This facility received a solid inspection report this year as well, with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it earned one of our better grades in that category with a score of B-. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we scored is long-term care, which ended up being a low point for this nursing home. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in the area of long-term care. Facilities that do not fare well in long-term care typically aren't as well-staffed and are lagging in a few of the areas of routine healthcare services we assessed. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. We found that this nursing home administered the vaccine to a relatively low 73.931625 percent of its residents, which is a bit of a concern. To our surprise, this place was actually decent at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. This was its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 6.5% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are considered by many in the nursing home industry to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of patients not being moved frequently enough.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 5% of Patients had Serious Falls
This tells you the percentage of patients who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to serious injury are routinely associated with lower levels of patient supervision. Better nursing care can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 3.56% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often the result of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. However, this statistic may also be skewed for certain nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 18.09% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is the percentage of residents given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 22% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents taking antianxiety drugs.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 5.66% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many believe this is a reasonable measure of resident quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 91.03% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who were administered the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 16.97% Percentage of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and continence. Some experts would argue that this is a reasonable measure of a patient's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 17% Percentage of Residents
This is the percent of patients who retained mobility levels over time. Preserving mobility is usually a good sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 1.79 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 17 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 12.31 Percentage of Patients
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Hilltop Lodge Nursing Home, 75.24% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some argue that this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Mitchell County Hospital Health SystemsCritical Access Hospitals 0.14 miles away400 W 8th Street, P O Box 399 Beloit Kansas 67420Government - Local(785) 738-2266