Upland Hills Nursing and Rehab
800 Compassion Way, Dodgeville WI 53533 · (608) 930-7600 · 84.54% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Upland Hills Nursing and Rehab is a senior living facility located in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, a city with 7,276 people. With an A+ overall grade, we ranked this nursing home number 127 in the United States. This puts it in the top one percentile of all nursing homes. Based on our ratings, this nursing home is simply as good as it gets. This nursing home also received strong grades in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 44 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Long-term Care Quality
In addition to being a first rate nursing home overall, this facility also excelled in long-term care, where it received an A+. Few nursing homes fared better in this category. Facilities that excel in long-term care typically provide patients with more supervision and stay on top of routine medical care. On top of assessing the impressive quantity of care provided by nurses aids and other staff at this nursing home, we also were impressed by the facility's record for vaccinations. This nursing home gave the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an impressive figure. This combination proved to be successful as this facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 1.63 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Facility Inspections
This facility also received an A+ inspection score, making it one of the few facilities to receive multiple A+'s in our category grades. This grade is based on the nursing home's recent inspection reports. An A+ in this category is one of the highest complements we can pay to a facility. These inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these factors by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we were able to find deficiency counts for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Another reason we rated this nursing home so highly is that it received an A+ nursing grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this category. We weighed the skill-level of nurses at the nursing home, in addition to the quantity of hours the nurses spent with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. This facility provided 4.6 hours of nursing care per resident each day, 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 these statistics. On top of providing impressive levels of care, this place also excelled in the quality-based metrics we looked at. By way of illustration, it performed as well as any facility in the nation in the area of minimizing its residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as good measures of the quality of nursing care being provided.
Short-term Care Quality
Moving on to our fourth category, this nursing home received a highly favorable short-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an A in that category, rounding out a straight A profile. Short-term care ratings are meaningful for people seeking rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires more highly-skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes a vast range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. This place excelled in the two key staffing areas we looked at. The facility offered more care from physical therapists and registered nurses than the typical facility. This is a great sign. The final metric we assessed in this category is the percentage of residents who eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it performed better than most facilities in this area with 52.7 percent of its residents returning home. With most facilities, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Upland Hills Nursing and Rehab Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also called bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing care minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of residents who have had a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are often the result of poor nursing care. Better nursing protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay residents who have suffered from a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this statistic can be misleading for certain nursing homes due to inconsistent reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many patients, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This measures the percentage of long-term care patients that were given antianxiety drugs. These medications are used to treat patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
Measures the percentage of long-term care residents demonstrating symptoms of depression. Many in the industry believe this is a reliable measure of quality of care.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This metric measures the percent of long-term stay residents who received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be very dangerous for seniors, making these types of vaccines indispensable.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percent of patients that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with ADL's may indicate deterioration of a resident's medical condition.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that were able to retain mobility over time. Retaining mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This tells you the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term resident care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term patients who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many in the industry argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better