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Heartwood Avenue Healthcare

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  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: A-minus
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1044 Heartwood Ave.,
Vallejo CA 94590

(707) 643-2267

66.33% estimated occupancy 1

With an address in Vallejo, California, Heartwood Avenue Healthcare is one of just a few available nursing homes in this city. With an overall grade of A-, this nursing home is one of the more impressive nursing homes we assessed. Based on our ratings, this nursing home is simply as good as it gets. This facility was also given strong grades in each of our categories. More information about these categories can be found below.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • For profit - Limited Liability company
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Registered Staff Hours

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Long-term Care Quality

Grade: A

One of the reasons this turned out to be a great facility is that it earned a very impressive long-term care score. In fact, this turned out to be its best category. In that area, we awarded this facility an A. Nursing homes that excel in long-term care tend to be well-staffed and provide extensive hands on care to patients. One of the datapoints we considered after nursing hours is vaccines. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations for the senior population. Lastly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

Adding to this facility's impressive resume, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our inspections rating. Our inspection grades are based on many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-plus

Turning to an additional strength for this facility, we gave them one of our stronger scores in our short-term care category as well, with a B+. In computing our short-term care scores, we scrutinize a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This rating is often a fair assessment of the nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, it does not look like this facility submitted data regarding its registered nurse or physical therapy staffing. The last datapoint we considered in this area is the percentage of patients that ultimately were able to return home from the nursing home. We found that 5.8 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home as opposed to remaining at the facility on a permanent basis.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

In our final category, this nursing home also was awarded an impressive nursing rating, with a B+. This rounded out a very strong report card. Our nursing score weighs many components, most of which are based on nursing hours. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can frequently be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Heartwood Avenue Healthcare Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: B-minus

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 8.99% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are damage to the skin due to remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: B-plus

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 2.65% of Patients had Serious Falls

This indicates the percentage of patients who suffered from a fall leading to severe injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B-plus

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 1% of Patients had UTIs

This indicates the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often linked to worse hygiene protocols. Better nursing care can minimize the number likelihood of residents sustaining infections. Note that this metric is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 12.2% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This datapoint tells you the percent of long-term care patients who are given antipsychotic medication. Increased usage of these drugs may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents in situations where such medications are not medically indicated. However, some nursing homes need to rely more on these medications due to an increased number of patients with Alzheimer's or other dementias.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-plus

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 15.89% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This figure is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay patients taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 0% of Patients

This is the percent of patients demonstrating depressive symptoms.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 96.61% of Patients

This tells you the percent of patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: F

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 27.17% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients who needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 20.7% of Residents

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to maintaining the physical health of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 20.7% of Residents Rehospitalized

This metric is a measure of the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: F

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 38.15% of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In Heartwood Avenue Healthcare, 77.79% of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term care residents that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Sutter Solano Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.31 miles away300 Hospital Dr Vallejo California 94589Voluntary non-profit - Private(707) 554-5280
  • Kaiser Foundation Hospital and Rehab CenterAcute Care Hospitals 2.56 miles away975 Sereno Dr Vallejo California 94589Voluntary non-profit - Other(707) 651-1000
  • Contra Costa Regional Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 8.21 miles away2500 Alhambra Avenue Martinez California 94553Government - Local(925) 370-5000
  • John Muir Behavioral Health CenterPsychiatric 12.67 miles away2740 Grant Street Concord California 94524Voluntary non-profit - Private(925) 674-4101
  • John Muir Medical Center - Concord CampusAcute Care Hospitals 12.95 miles away2540 East St Concord California 94520Voluntary non-profit - Private(925) 682-8200
  • Northbay Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 13.82 miles away1200 B Gale Wilson Blvd Fairfield California 94533Voluntary non-profit - Other(707) 646-5000
  • Queen of the Valley Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 15.94 miles away1000 Trancas St Napa California 94558Voluntary non-profit - Church(707) 252-4411
  • John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek CampusAcute Care Hospitals 16.3 miles away1601 Ygnacio Valley Rd Walnut Creek California 94598Voluntary non-profit - Other(925) 939-3000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Carquinez Dialysis Center2.14 miles away125 Corporate Place Suite C Vallejo California 94590CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (707) 556-3637
  • Vallejo Dialysis Center2.66 miles away830 Redwood Street Vallejo California 94590CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (707) 642-2017
  • Wellbound of Vallejo2.92 miles away480 Redwood Street Suite 40 Vallejo California 94590Dialysis Stations: 4 (707) 556-3070
  • Satellite Dialysis Vallejo2.98 miles away4300 Sonoma Blvd, Suite 25 Vallejo California 94589CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 33 (707) 561-7150
  • Benicia Dialysis Center4.94 miles away560 First Street Bldg d103 Benicia California 94510CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 14 (707) 745-1488
  • Fairfield Dialysis Center8.97 miles away4660 Central Way Fairfield California 94534CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 32 (707) 863-7369
  • Davita El Sobrante10.72 miles away3380 San Pablo Dam Rd Ste. C-D El Sobrante California 94803CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (510) 262-9230
  • Concord Dialysis Center11.21 miles away2300 Stanwell Drive Suite C Concord California 94520CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 21 (925) 677-7492