Heartland of Hillsboro

Heartland of Hillsboro is an average-sized non-profit facility located in Hillsboro, Ohio. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B+, which is very favorable score. Based on our ratings, this place looks like a good fit for most people. This place was better in some categories than others, but it did not have any bad scores in any of the major categories discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

In addition to faring well overall, this facility earned a nearly flawless inspection report. Therefore, it earned one of our best scores in that area with an A+. Arguably the most important factor we consider in computing our inspection grades is deficiencies. These deficiencies are found on a facility's inspection reports. Nursing homes with higher scores in this category most likely dodged the more severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this nursing home had a few minor dings on its inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are found in categories G, H, I, J, K and L. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Additionally, this facility also received favorable short-term care grades this year. Indeed, we awarded it one of our higher grades in that area, with a score of B+. Short-term care grades are often used to judge a nursing home's performance with rehabilitation. In order to provide quality rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to provide better levels of highly skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists and other types of therapists. This nursing home provides a decent amount of services from physical therapists and registered nurses based on our assessment. The last statistic we looked at in this category is the number of residents who were able to leave the facility and return to the community. It performed as well as just about any nursing home in Ohio in this area with 59.4 percent of its patients returning home. Unfortunately, at most nursing homes, fewer than half of their short-term residents are able to return home.

Another strong feature for this facility is that it received an impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of B. We scrutinized the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the quantity of hours those nurses were with patients, in calculating our score in this category. This facility provided 3.2 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility performed very well in the area of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

The next area we graded ended up being this nursing home's weakest area. Nevertheless, even in its worst category we still awarded it a respectable grade of B- in long-term care. Our long-term care grade is generally used to score a facility's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. One of the data points we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccinations. Thankfully, this nursing home administered the pneumonia vaccine to 100 percent of its patients. This place keeps its residents out of the hospital. Indeed, it had just 1.57 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days.