Heartland Care and Rehabilitation Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was not a highlight, it actually really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it an A+ for that area, which is one of our best scores. Perhaps the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a facility's inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid facilities that had a long list of severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this place had some minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you that the inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. A few minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.

This nursing home was awarded its next best category grade in the area of long-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this category, which is a decent score. Our long-term care grade is generally used to gauge a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a skilled nursing facility. On top of assessing the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 99.29078 percent of its patients, which is more than most nursing homes. Finally, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.01 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Another concern is the F this nursing home was given in the category of short-term care. Our short-term care ratings are based on the facility's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, in addition to other forms of therapy. Based on its score in this area, we were not surprised to find that this place is well below average in terms of its quantity of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected here. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

The last area we assessed was nursing, where this nursing home was given a bottom of the barrel grade here also. Unfortunately, we gave it an abysmal F in this category, which is obviously a major concern. The nursing rating is based on several components, but the main consideration is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. 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 its weak nursing hour totals, this place also earned poor scores in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We found that more of this facility's residents experienced falls which led to major injury.