Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center
8701 Riley Drive, Little Rock AR 72205 · (501) 224-2700 · 53.57% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center is a large nursing home located in Little Rock, Arkansas. This nursing home is a subpar facility. A score in this range indicates we found a few red flags. This place seems to have very little going for it. We wouldn't blame you if you are ready to stop reading and find another nursing home. However, if you want to learn more about this nursing home's category grades, we will discuss long-term care in the next paragraph.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 140 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
Even though we were not high on this facility overall, we awarded it a grade of B for long-term care. This score is far more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Without this grade, its profile would have been even worse. Nursing homes that do well in long-term care typically are well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to residents. On top of considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 94.306046 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping patients healthy. The last statistic we assessed is the facility's hospitalization rate. Here we found that this nursing home had 3.19 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. While this admittedly wasn't as impressive as most of its other scores in this category, this figure may be skewed for some nursing homes based on some of the medical complexity of patients.
Facility Inspections
Surprisingly, this nursing home actually earned a good grade in the area of inspections as well. We gave it a B for that category, which is one of our better grades. Few nursing homes that were this poor overall earned multiple category grades of this caliber. Perhaps the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is typically in your best interest to avoid facilities that have too many severe deficiencies. While this facility had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Nurse Quality
This nursing home actually received a decent grade in the area of nursing as well. We awarded it a grade of B- for that category, which is not a bad score. Nursing scores are based in large part on quantity of nursing care available. Based on the data, it looks like this place provides an impressive 4.2 hours per resident on a daily basis. This is more nursing care than most nursing homes offer. In calculating our grades, we apply more weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this place excelled in some of these subcategories. With less than five percent of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, it fared very well in this datapoint. This is usually a reliable indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can typically be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning residents at least once a day.
Short-term Care Quality
The last area we looked at is short-term care. Unfortunately, we gave it a lowly F for this category, which is a bottom of the barrel grade. With our short-term care assessment, we seek to forge a meaningful gauge for rehabilitation services. In this process, we assess a facility's scope of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as occupational therapy. Not surprisingly, we found that this nursing home provides far less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The final metric we looked at in this category is the number of patients who were able to return home from the facility. This nursing home struggled quite a bit in this metric as well, with just 30.2 percent of its patients returning home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also known as bed sores, are often the result of residents not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing care can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term residents which sustained falls leading to severe injury. Falls can happen for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be an indicator of lower levels of patient supervision.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who had a urinary tract infection. Although more of these infections could reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare between facilities due to differing reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these drugs are being used appropriately. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are used to treat patients suffering from anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percentage of patients who are exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percentage of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and bathing.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term care patients who were able to retain mobility. Many in the industry believe that the ability to move around is critical to residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. Keeping residents out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint measures the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term resident care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the health of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better