Heartland Health Care Center-Three Rivers
517 S Erie St, Three Rivers MI 49093 · (269) 273-8661 · 82.8% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Heartland Health Care Center-Three Rivers is an average-sized non-profit nursing home located in Three Rivers, 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 inspection rating. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph
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Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 100 Beds
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Non profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received a strong overall score as described above, but we especially would like to point out its excellent health inspections in recent years. We awarded it an A in this category. Inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can find more information about each of these factors by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home had just a single deficiency on its inspection report and it was not one deemed to pose a threat to patient health or safety. Even some of the best nursing homes receive an occasional ding on their inspection report.
Short-term Care Quality
We also awarded this nursing home a score of A- for our short-term care grade. Short-term care scores are based in part on the facility's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a vast spectrum of nursing services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. One reason for this facility's strong score in this category is that it provides a greater volume of physical therapist hours to its residents than the average nursing home. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this nursing home. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it fared as well as just about any nursing home in the nation with 58.2 percent of its residents returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this metric.
Nurse Quality
This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. The nursing score assesses many factors, but the main consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these statistics as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care being provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed is long-term care. In that category, we gave this facility a decent grade of C. This proved to be this nursing home's weakest area. In the category of long-term care, we focus more on the amount of care offered by a facility, as opposed to more medically-intensive services. Once we concluded our assessment of the amount of nursing care, we turned to the facility's vaccination statistics. We were optimistic to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 99.28571 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Lastly, this place was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heartland Health Care Center-Three Rivers 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