Heartland of Bellefontaine

Heartland of Bellefontaine is located in Bellefontaine, Ohio, a city with a population of 19,240 people. We gave this facility a bottom of the barrel overall score based on the data we looked at. At the end of the day, you'd be better off to avoid of this facility. If you aren't deterred by this nursing home's profile, feel free to continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection reports are discussed in the next paragraph.

While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it actually received a fairly impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a B+. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in calculating our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's recent inspection reports. It is generally best to avoid nursing homes that had too many severe deficiencies. This particular nursing home received 6 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.

Incredibly, we awarded this nursing home a C for our short-term care score, which really isn't too bad of a score. Our short-term care scores are based in part on the nursing home's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a vast spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this facility was below average in terms of its level of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its residents based on the metrics we assessed. The question is whether this also affected quality of care. Finally, we assessed the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. This proved to be more of a strength for this facility. In fact, we found that it outperformed the majority of nursing homes in the country in this area with 54.4 percent of its residents returning home. This is a higher rate than most nursing homes.

We gave this facility just a D for our long-term care score. This is not one of our better scores. In a long-term care environment, the primary objective is to keep patients as healthy and safe as possible. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate patients. After considering the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 97.22222 percent of its residents against pneumonia. Surprisingly, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.85 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has less hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category weren't as favorable as these.

The final area we graded was nursing. This nursing home received a very poor grade of F in that area. The nursing score consists of many components, many of which are associated with nursing hours. This facility provided just 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of ranking below average in nursing hours per resident, this nursing home also had poor marks in the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percentage of residents experiencing pressure ulcers and major falls. This facility was at about 1.5 times the national average in both of these metrics. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many falls and bed sores are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. These scores pulled down this facility's nursing grade quite a bit.