Heartland of Kettering

To pair with its relatively modest overall grade, we awarded this facility a grade of A- for its inspection grade. This grade is far more impressive than the facility's overall grade. Our inspection grades are tied to items located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that receive favorable grades in this area tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these facilities generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. This nursing home was assessed 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors didn't deem any of the deficiencies an immediate risk to patient safety or health. Remember that deficiency-free inspections are rare in this industry.

This nursing home also received a strong grade in our nursing category. We awarded this nursing home an above average grade of B+ in this area. Our nursing score is largely tied to a nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This nursing home performed very well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

This facility's next most favorable category ended up being short-term care. In that area, we awarded this nursing home a B-. Short-term care scores are based on the nursing home's quantity of skilled skilled healthcare professionals. This includes a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and speech therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home provided information on registered nurse or physical therapist staffing. Lastly, we looked at the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 4.6 percent of this facility's residents returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their residents are able to return home so this figure is below average.

Switching gears to our final category, this nursing home was awarded a decent long-term care grade of C. For residents in need of a permanent place to live as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care is an important category. After considering the quantity of care provided by nurses, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination data. We were optimistic to find that this facility vaccinates 97.51773 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.