Heartland of Chillicothe

Heartland of Chillicothe is an average-sized non-profit facility located in Chillicothe, Ohio. We awarded this facility an overall grade of C. A grade in this range requires some respectable marks. This facility seems to have some things working in its favor. The best part of this facility's report card is its remarkable inspection grade. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.

We want to point out that this nursing home outperformed its overall grade in the category of inspections. In fact, it received a nearly flawless government inspection report this year. As a result, we gave it one of our highest grades in this area with an A. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection ratings. One key factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is usually more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively insignificant. This facility was assessed 3 deficiencies on its inspection report, but we were relieved to see that none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies to cause an imminent threat to resident safety or health. A few minor deficiencies shouldn't stop you from considering a nursing home.

Another one of this nursing home's more impressive category grades was in the category of short-term care. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of B. It actually outpaced most facilities in this category. Our short-term care grade is typically employed to measure a nursing home's rehabilitation services. In order to have highly graded rehabilitation services, nursing homes generally need to feature higher levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other licensed professionals. Fortunately, this nursing home offers both physical therapists and registered nurses. Not all facilities offer both. The final metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. This place was above average in this area with 55.8 percent of its patients returning home.

Another strength of this nursing home is its favorable grade in nursing. We gave them one of our better scores in that area, with an D. In determining a nursing home's nursing grade, we consider the quantity of hours nurses are caring for residents and the level of licensure of the nurses. This facility provided just 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. To pair with its low totals in the area of nursing hours per patient, this facility also didn't perform as well in the quality-based measures we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents sustaining major falls and pressure ulcers. This facility had more falls and pressure ulcers than the average facility.

The next category we looked at is long-term care, which ended up being this facility's least impressive area. We gave it a lowly F in this area, which is certainly a major disappointment. If you are looking for services other than rehabilitation, you should take a close look at each facility's long-term care scores. One of the factors we considered after nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this facility provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.242424 percent of its residents. To our surprise, this facility was able to keep its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 1.38 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.