Heartland Manor Nursing Center

Although we didn't grade this nursing home favorably overall, we actually gave it an excellent score in the area of inspections, where it earned an A-. Inspection ratings account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. You generally want to avoid nursing homes with a list of severe deficiencies flagged. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.

We also want to point out that this facility received a decent grade in our nursing category. We awarded it a grade of C in the area. There are a variety of datapoints included in this category. Most of the criteria relate to the quantity of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides only 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a somewhat uninspiring figure which is well below the national average. Finally, our nursing ratings also factor in quality-based measures, such as preventing major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home performed admirably in the area of preventing major falls. This is generally a reliable indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Many falls could be avoided if a nursing home provides enough nurses aids to assist its patients.

The third area we analyzed is short-term care. In that category, we awarded this nursing home a solid grade of C. Our short-term care grade is commonly employed to measure a facility's rehabilitation services In order to offer quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have higher levels of skilled nursing services. These types of services include registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals. In this place's case, we were surprised to learn that it actually provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. The last measure we looked at in this category is the percentage of patients who returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. This figure was below average.

Switching gears to our next category, this nursing home didn't perform very well in this area either. With a rock bottom grade of F in long-term care, this is just about as bad as it gets. In a long-term care environment, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. One of the data points we considered on top of nurse's aid hours is vaccinations. Fortunately, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.31035 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place also fared well at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Unfortunately, a few of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.