Rolling Hills Rehab and Care Center

Although this nursing home's overall grade was terrible, it actually fared pretty well in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a B+ for that category, which is one of our better scores. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Surprisingly, this nursing home received a category L deficiency, which is unexpected based on its inspection score. This category of deficiency indicates the government inspectors discovered a widespread deficiency placing patient health or safety in imminent danger. While other aspects of this nursing home's inspection report were favorable, we have some reservations.

This nursing home's second most favorable score was short-term care, but even there it earned a grade of just D in that area. This turns out to be a relatively poor score. In calculating these short-term care grades, we look at the nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, speech therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. The goal is to devise a tool for comparing the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. Not surprisingly, we learned that this facility provides substantially less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than a typical facility. The last metric we assessed in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We discovered that just 4.8 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is well below average. The combination of these subpar statistics doomed this nursing home's short-term care grade.

Unfortunately, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care score. When nursing homes receive this type of grade in long-term care it is often a bad sign for resident care and it may mean that the place is not as well-staffed. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 93.37748 percent of its patients, which is slightly lower than we expected. To our surprise, this facility was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility had less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. This was its best feature in this category.

Moving on to our final category, this nursing home did not perform very well in this area either. Due to an abysmal grade of F in nursing, this is just about as bad as it gets. The nursing rating weighs several factors. The most heavily weighted one is the quantity of hours nurses spent with patients. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of receiving below average marks for total nursing hours, this place was less impressive in some of the quality-based measures we looked at in computing our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of patients sustaining pressure ulcers and found this nursing home was at roughly 150 percent of the national average in this statistic.