Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of C. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining these inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of these deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some end up being quite insignificant. This place was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to find that none were in categories G through L. This indicates that inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies to pose an imminent danger to resident health or safety. Unfortunately, we also need to draw your attention to the fact that this facility received significant government fines in recent years.

We were also surprised to find that this facility received a decent nursing grade this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. Nursing scores are primarily associated with the facility's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures. Although this nursing home got docked a bit for its nursing hours, it actually excelled in some of these quality-based metrics. With less than five percent of its patients experiencing pressure ulcers, it performed very well in this subcategory. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a policy of moving residents more frequently.

This nursing home's second worse score is short-term care, where it earned a grade of just D in that area. This is a well below average score. Short-term care scores are vital for people looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation generally utilizes additional highly-skilled nursing services. This means a broad range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Based on its weak grade in this area, we weren't shocked to learn this nursing home provided substantially fewer registered nurse and physical therapist hours per resident than most other facilities. The last statistic we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. This facility struggled quite a bit in this area as well, with just 4.2 percent of its patients returning home. This was well below the national average.

Moving on to the next area, this facility really didn't fare very well in this area either. Due to a bottom of the barrel grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as terrible as it gets. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means the facility did not perform well in our quality measures relating to patient care. Once we assessed the volume of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 92.622955 percent of its residents against pneumonia. To our surprise, this nursing home actually fared well at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. This was its best score in this category.