Heartland Health Care Center-Dearborn Heights
26001 Ford Rd, Dearborn Heights MI 48127 · (313) 274-4600 · 82.33% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Heartland Health Care Center-Dearborn Heights is a large non-profit nursing home located in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. This nursing home received an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable rating. This nursing home truly has plenty working in its favor. The best part of this facility's strong profile is its short-term care rating. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 124 Beds
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Non profit - Other
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home received a strong overall grade as described above, but we want to note its excellent short-term care score. We awarded them an A in this area. In determining our short-term care scores, we analyze a nursing home's levels of skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This category is typically a solid measure of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home provided more physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most facilities. This is what we like to find when assessing a nursing home in this category. The last metric we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return to the community. We found that it fared as well as just about any facility in Michigan in this area with 63.9 percent of its patients returning home. At most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Inspection grades take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by obtaining copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this nursing home had some deficiencies on its government inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. We should point out that deficiency-free inspections are rare in the industry.
Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. The nursing grade analyzes several datapoints, but the most important one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This place offers extremely high levels of nursing care, averaging 4.1 hours per resident each day. This is more nursing care than nearly any other nursing home offers. Finally, this place also performed well in several of the quality measures we looked at. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its residents suffering falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed as well as any nursing home in Michigan. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The last area we graded was long-term care. This nursing home was given a very good long-term care rating in our assessment, with a grade of B-. Although this wasn't as strong as some of its other grades, this is nevertheless a respectable score for this area. Our long-term care ratings are more meaningful for people in need of more conventional assistance associated with activities of daily living. While we determined this facility has a favorable amount of nursing care provided by nurses aids and other nursing staff, we found its vaccination rate to be a bit slightly lower than we anticipated. This nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to just 80.87431 percent of its residents. This is a statistic we'd love to see this facility bring up. Lastly, we looked at its number of hospitalizations. This facility did not excel here either, with 5.58 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Although this figure is quite a bit higher than the national average, this statistic can be skewed for some nursing homes due to the medical complexity of residents.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heartland Health Care Center-Dearborn Heights Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients which developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents that have had a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered to be a barometer of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls which result in injury are routinely caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This indicates the percentage of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections could be linked to poorer hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of residents given antianxiety medications. These medications are typically used to treat patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is the percent of patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. High vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This is the percentage of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This tells you the percent of residents who remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a good sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This is a measure of the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. Minimizing rehospitalizations during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of residents.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percent of short-term patients that saw functional improvements.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better