Village at Hillside

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for its nursing grade. In computing a facility's nursing score, we weigh the number of hours nurses are caring for residents as well as the level of skill of the nurses. This particular nursing home provided 0.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

We also wanted to emphasize the fact that this nursing home excelled in our short-term care category. We awarded them an impressive grade of A+ in this area. In computing our short-term care scores, we size up a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is frequently a useful assessment of the facility's rehabilitation services. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the data they provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Lastly, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6.3 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

We gave this nursing home an A- for inspections. Arguably the most important factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. Fortunately, although this facility had some minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This tells you that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in this industry.

The next area we rated was long-term care. In that area, we awarded this facility a solid grade of B-. This turned out to be this nursing home's weakest area. Our long-term care ratings are based on the nursing home's quantity of nursing care. This means a vast spectrum of personal care services, ranging from assistance with activities of daily living to routine healthcare services. Once we finished looking at the volume of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination records. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this nursing home vaccinated just 89.655174 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Nevertheless, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.