Heartland Health Care Center Lauderhill

Heartland Health Care Center Lauderhill is in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The city offers many options. This nursing home was given an A- overall, which is very good score. Based on our assessment, this nursing home is just about as as good as it gets. The best aspect of this facility's impressive report card was its long-term care grade. We discuss long-term care in the next section

On top of being a first rate facility overall, this nursing home also fared well in our long-term care category, where it earned an A+. Few facilities performed better in this area. When nursing homes receive a score in this range in this category it typically means it has plenty of staff and is a quality place to reside on a permanent basis. After we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 95.96977 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is an impressive figure. Pneumonia sadly can be a life threatening ailment for nursing home residents so we strongly prefer when a facility doesn't roll the dice on this issue. Lastly, we looked at the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this nursing home had 2.15 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days.

Adding to its impressive category grades, this nursing home also excelled in the category of inspections, where it earned an A-. Arguably the most significant factor we look at in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. Deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with better scores in this area most likely avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Adding to its impressive resume, this nursing home also excelled in our nursing category. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category. Nursing grades are largely associated with the facility's nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.7 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some quality-based measures in this category. This place fared well in some of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the percentage of its patients suffering from pressure ulcers, this facility performed better than the national average. This is generally an indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Pressure ulcers can frequently be prevented with better nursing care.

The next area we graded is short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a decent grade in this category, with a B-. Even though this isn't on par with a few of its other scores, it is nevertheless not the end of the world. Our short-term care scores are thought to be more critical for folks requiring rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation typically mandates additional skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not only nursing, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides more care with registered nurses to its residents than the average nursing home. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return home from this facility. We found that 34.8 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home. This figure was actually below the national average.