Westhills Village Health Care Facility is located in Rapid City, South Dakota. The city has 90,647 people. This nursing home is an A rated facility, which is one of the best ratings that we offer. We were so impressed with this facility that we rated it as one of the 10 best nursing homes in South Dakota. One of the major highlights of this nursing home's exemplary profile is its inspection score. Inspection grades are discussed in the next paragraph.
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Westhills Village Health Care Facility
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- Memory Care
Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
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- Accepts Medicare 1
- No Medicaid 1
- Is CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- Non profit - Corporation
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Palliative Care
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
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Facility Inspections
One of the many reasons this turned out to be a quality nursing home is that it received an A+ inspection grade. This is simply as good as it gets in this critical category. Our inspection scores account for several factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this area typically have few severe deficiencies. It doesn't appear that we have information about this nursing home's deficiencies. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home also excelled in the category of short-term care, where we gave it a grade of A. Not many facilities fared better in this area. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to judge a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to feature better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not every facility employs these skilled professionals. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. The last item we considered in this area is the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from the facility. We found that 5.9 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.
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Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to its first-rate resume, this facility also was awarded a superb long-term care score, with a score of A. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with better supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. On top of looking at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This nursing home gave the vaccine to 94.44444 percent of its residents, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia tragically can be a dangerous ailment for nursing home patients so we strongly prefer when a facility does not take any chances. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Nurse Quality
In our final area, we gave this nursing home a grade of A+ for our nursing score. This rounded out a very favorable report card. Nursing ratings are heavily correlated with quantity of nursing care available. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Westhills Village Health Care Facility Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 7.81% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to staying in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 3.33% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injury are routinely associated with lower levels of patient supervision. More supervision minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 6.33% of Patients had UTIs
This gauges the percentage of long-term residents who sustained a UTI. UTI's could be a sign of worse hygiene protocols. Nevertheless, this metric can be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 12.22% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percentage of residents given antipsychotic drugs. These medications are sometimes used for a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 2.44% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This tells you the percent of residents who were prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety medications are prescribed to patients suffering from anxiety and depression.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 4.55% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term care residents showing depressive symptoms. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 94.34% of Patients
This is the percentage of residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 10.13% of Patients
This indicates the percentage of residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 4.24% of Residents
This metric tracks the percent of long-term stay residents that maintained mobility.
Hospitalizations
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Staying out of the hospital is important to maintaining the physical health of nursing home residents.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 4.24% of Residents Rehospitalized
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 6.09% of Patients
This metric is a measure of the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Westhills Village Health Care Facility, 84.63% of Resident
This metric measures the percentage of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Some experts argue that this is a reasonable measure of rehabilitation services.
Scores for Rapid City, SD
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A
Looking for more options? Rapid City, South Dakota has 6 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Regional Health Rapid City HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.66 miles away353 Fairmont Blvd Post Office Box 6000 Rapid City South Dakota 57701Voluntary non-profit - Private(605) 755-1000
Nearby Dialysis
- Regional Dialysis Center - Rcrh0.52 miles away353 Fairmont Blvd Rapid City South Dakota 57701Dialysis Stations: 3 (605) 755-2165
- Regional Dialysis Center1.14 miles away640 Flormann Street Suite 401 Rapid City South Dakota 57701CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (605) 755-6950