Hillcrest Home

One of the reasons this place ended up being a great nursing home is that it received an A+ in our inspections category. This is simply as good as it gets in this area. Our inspection grades are tied to several items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Facilities that score well in this area have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility also was elite in the area of long-term care, where it received a score of A-. Not many facilities performed better in this category. Facilities that do well in this category typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 98.56115 percent of its residents, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Another one of this facility's impressive category grades came in the area of nursing care. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with a grade of B+. There are a number of criteria within this category. Most of the datapoints reflect nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at 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 place the nation in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by offering better nursing care, such as having a system of turning a resident more often.

The final category we analyzed was short-term care. This nursing home received a strong nursing grade in our assessment, with a grade of B. While this wasn't quite as strong as some of its other grades, this is still one of our stronger grades for that category. In our short-term care assessment, we strive to craft a sound gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we analyze the facility's level of skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final measure we looked at in this area is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that 5.2 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.