Hubbard Hill Estates

Hubbard Hill Estates is a small non-profit nursing home in Elkhart, Indiana. Featuring an overall score of A+, this nursing home is undoubtedly an elite facility. In fact, we ranked this nursing home in the top ten percent of all facilities in the United States. This also ended up being a very consistent nursing home with consistently strong scores in each of the major categories. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

We also found that this nursing home excelled in our short-term care rating. We awarded them an elite grade of A+ in this category. In the area of short-term care, we endeavor to qualify measures of a facility's rehabilitation services. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical therapists. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. 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 it fared as well as just about any nursing home in Indiana in this area with 59.4 percent of its residents returning home.

One of the other reasons we rated this facility so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing grade. In that category, we gave this facility an A. Our nursing score assesses the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We weigh both the levels of training of the nurses as well as the amount of time spent with residents. This place provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per patient daily, which is among the higher figures in the country. A significant percentage of those hours were provided by registered nurses, which are one of the most skilled levels of nurses. We were very impressed by both of these figures. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this nursing home also performed well in several of the quality measures we assessed. For example, in terms of the number of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility outpaced the national average. This is generally a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented with better nursing care and having a policy of regularly moving residents to prevent bed sores.

Another impressive feature of this facility is its inspection grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A. Inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means the inspectors didn't consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

The fourth category we analyzed is long-term care, where this facility was awarded a grade of A. This completed a very impressive report card. Very few facilities received an A- or better in all four categories. Long-term care ratings in this range generally require both around the clock care from nurses and aids, as well as quality routine medical care. On top of offering well above average levels of nurse staffing, this facility gave the pneumonia vaccine to 99.42857 percent of its residents. Vaccines are critical to keeping residents out of the hospital. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had only 0.77 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.