Heartland Health Care Center - Greenville West

In addition to its strong overall grade, we gave this facility an A for our long-term care rating. If you are seeking services other than short-term rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each nursing home's long-term care grades. Once we concluded our assessment of the volume of nursing care, we next considered the facility's vaccination statistics. This nursing home vaccinated 79.472145 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Although its vaccination rate was a bit lower than we had hoped, at least this place was able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

In addition, this nursing home also earned a nearly flawless inspection report. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with an A. Inspection ratings are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspections. Facilities that excel in this category tend to have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. It doesn't appear that we have deficiency data for this facility. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Turning our next category, we awarded this facility a score of A- for its short-term care grade. This is a superb score. Our short-term care grades are likely most important for individuals in need of rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation typically requires more skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility has registered nurses on staff. Not all facilities employs these skilled professionals. However, according to the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the percentage of residents who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 5.6 percent of this facility's patients returned home.

The fourth category we looked at is nursing, where this nursing home received a grade of A-. This wrapped up a very favorable report card. Few nursing homes earned an A- or higher in each of our categories. We analyzed the qualifications of nurses employed by the facility, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our grade in this category. This nursing home averages 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these metrics as good indicators of the quality of nursing care offered, since better care tends to reduce these problems.