Hillcrest Home

On top of being a quality facility overall, this nursing home really excelled in our inspections category, where it earned an A+. Not many facilities performed better in that area. Our inspection scores are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area have very few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this place had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in this industry.

This nursing home received an impressive long-term care grade as well. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category with a score of B. Facilities that receive this type of score in this category tend to provide consistent 24/7 care to ensure patients are well cared for. After we finished assessing the quantity of care provided by nurses, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. This nursing home vaccinated 99.61686 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life threatening illness for nursing home patients so we prefer when a facility does not leave its residents vulnerable. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

This facility's next best category grade came in the area of nursing. In that category, we gave this nursing home a grade of B-. This wasn't quite on par with some of its other category grades mentioned above. There are a number of datapoints included in this area. Most of these subcategories are tied to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident each day. This is a lower figure than we are used to seeing. Despite having low quantities of nursing care, this facility actually fared better in some of the quality measures we assessed. In fact, it scored well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.

The last area we scored was short-term care. We gave it a B- in that category. This is a perfectly acceptable grade in this category. In computing our short-term care scores, we analyze a facility's levels of skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is typically a reliable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. It does not appear that this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The final item we looked at in this area is the percentage of residents that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. This figure was below the national average.