Heartland Health and Rehabilitation Care Center-Ha
1800 Eagle Landing Blvd, Charleston SC 29406 · (843) 553-0656 · 60.96% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Heartland Health and Rehabilitation Care Center-Ha is a large nursing home in Charleston, South Carolina. Featuring an overall grade of B, this looks like a good nursing home. You could certainly do much worse than this facility. More information on this nursing home's category grades is available below. Its best category is short-term care, which is addressed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 135 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
In addition to receiving a strong overall grade, this nursing home performed well in our short-term care category. In fact, we awarded it an A for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Our short-term care grades are based in part on a nursing home's quantity of highly-skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. This nursing home boosted its score in this category by offering more physical therapy hours to its residents than the average facility. The final statistic we assessed in this category is the number of patients that eventually returned home from the facility. We found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in South Carolina in this area with 66.3 percent of its residents returning home.
Long-term Care Quality
Contributing to this facility's list of accomplishments, it also was given a superb long-term care score. We awarded them an elite strong of A- in this area. For patients in need of a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care grades are an important measure. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses and other staff, we next considered the nursing home's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 84.375 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which happens to be a bit lower than we expected but still a reasonably acceptable percentage. This place was also able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.56 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.
Facility Inspections
Another strong feature for this facility is that it excelled in the area of inspections, with a B in that category. It outperformed most nursing homes in this area. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes with better grades in this category most likely avoided the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. This particular nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.
Nurse Quality
Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home received an acceptable nursing score of B-. Nursing grades are mostly associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these data points as reliable measures of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heartland Health and Rehabilitation Care Center-Ha Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percent of residents that sustained a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage caused by remaining in the same position for too long.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to severe injuries are considered by many experts to be a measure of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Major falls leading to injury are routinely caused by poor nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This is the percentage of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic drugs. These medications may be used to treat several medical conditions, such as cognitive disorders.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. These medications are commonly given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This tells you the percent of residents exhibiting signs of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay residents that received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as taking medications and continence.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who maintained mobility over time. Optimizing mobility can be a good sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is critical to preserving the physical well-being of nursing home residents.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This indicates the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is a correlation between fewer emergency room visits and the overall quality of nursing home care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay residents who saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better