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Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A
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Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers's website

360 Canyon Ridge Drive,
Wray CO 80758

(970) 332-4856

75.11% estimated occupancy 1

Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers is a facility in Wray, Colorado. This city has 3,795 people. With an A overall grade, we rated this nursing home in the top fifth of all nursing homes in the United States. Based on all of the relevant data, you can not go wrong with this nursing home. This nursing home also received very consistent grades in each of the major categories we assessed. More information about these categories is available below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Corporation
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy

Registered Staff Hours

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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A-plus

On top of being a first rate nursing home overall, this nursing home also fared well in our long-term care category, where it earned a grade of A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this area. Facilities that excel in this category typically are well-staffed and offer extensive hands on care to residents. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. This nursing home vaccinated 98.039215 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Vaccines are vital to keeping residents out of the hospital. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A

Adding to its strong resume, this facility also received an excellent nursing score, with a grade of A. In computing our nursing scores, we weigh both staffing levels and the levels of licensure of those nurses. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: A-minus

Adding to its fine profile, this nursing home also received a strong short-term care grade, with a grade of A-. In forming these short-term care scores, we look at the facility's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The objective is to devise a scale for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last metric we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Facility Inspections

Grade: B-plus

Wrapping up its excellent profile, this facility also performed well in the area of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category. Inspection ratings are tied to several pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that excel in this area typically have very few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. We were not able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 3.85% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term patients that suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers. Many experts believe that pressure ulcers are an indicator of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: D

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 6.86% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percent of patients that suffered from a fall resulting in major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 3.16% of Patients had UTIs

This is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who suffered from urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it is difficult to compare between nursing homes due to facilities having varying reporting standards.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: A

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 5.88% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term care residents receiving antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these medications to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-plus

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 5% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This is the percent of patients who were given antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to patients experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B-plus

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 2.06% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care patients showing signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: A-minus

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 99.02% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be standard at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 17.53% of Patients

This is the percent of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of deterioration of a resident's medical condition.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 25.36% of Residents

Measures the percentage of long-term care patients who remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: D

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: D

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 25.36% of Residents Rehospitalized

This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. There is a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: D

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 16.95% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of 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

Grade: B-plus

In Hillcrest Care Center & The Towers, 81.23% of Resident

This metric measures the percent of short-term residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts believe that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation performance.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Wray Community District HospitalCritical Access Hospitals 1.6 miles away1017 West 7th St Wray Colorado 80758Government - Hospital District or Authority(970) 332-4811

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=065316