Heartland Health Care Center-Canton

On top of performing well in its overall grade, this facility performed at an even higher level in the area of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our highest grades in that category with a score of A-. Inspection scores take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This facility was hit with 6 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS didn't consider any of the deficiencies to create an immediate threat to resident health or safety. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.

We also awarded this nursing home a grade of A- for our nursing grade. Our nursing grade looks at the nursing home's nurse staffing levels. We factor in both the levels of skill of the nurses and the number of hours spent with patients. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this place excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any nursing home Michigan in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be prevented by providing better nursing care, such as having a system of moving a resident at least once a day.

The third area we analyzed was short-term care. This facility received a favorable short-term care score, with a grade of B+ in this area. Our short-term care grade is often employed to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation In order to provide highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally must feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not every nursing home employs these types of nurses. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we assessed the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 5.1 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

The last area we assessed is long-term care. In this category, we awarded this facility an acceptable grade of B-. This was this nursing home's weakest area. For prospective residents seeking a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care is a very important category. In addition to assessing the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. Fortunately, this nursing home administered the vaccine to 99.27536 percent of its residents, which is a very respectable statistic. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.