Heartland of Miamisburg

With an address in Miamisburg, Ohio, Heartland of Miamisburg is one of just a few nursing homes in the city. This nursing home was awarded an overall grade of B+, which is a strong score. We actually ranked it as the number one nursing home in Miamisburg. The best part of this nursing home's report card is is its short-term care rating. We discuss short-term care in the next section.

In addition to being a quality nursing home overall, this nursing home excelled in our short-term care category, where it received an A. In our short-term care grade, we strive to craft a valuable gauge for rehabilitation services. In doing so, we look at the nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as respiratory therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. The final datapoint we assessed in this category is the number of residents who were able to return home from the facility. We found that it performed as well as just about any facility in Ohio in this area with 59.9 percent of its patients returning home.

Adding to its impressive category grades, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A for our inspections rating. We take several aspects of a facility's inspection report into consideration in determining our inspection grades. One critical factor is deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of the deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the number of deficiencies, as some of these are relatively minor. This nursing home was hit with 2 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were considered to be major deficiencies. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to pose an imminent threat to resident health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility received a very good nursing grade this year as well. It received one of our better scores in that category with a grade of B. Our nursing grade analyzes a handful of datapoints, however, the paramount one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home averages 3.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed certain nursing quality measures in computing our nursing grades. These include minimizing residents' pressure ulcers and major falls. We look at these datapoints as predictive measures of the caliber of nursing care provided, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final area we analyzed was long-term care, where this facility was awarded a C. Even though this is its weakest category rating, this is nevertheless not a poor grade. Long-term care grades are commonly used to judge a nursing home's performance as a traditional convalescent home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services provided by a rehabilitation facility. In addition to looking at the amount of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. Thankfully, this nursing home gave the vaccine to 100 percent of its patients, which is an above average datapoint. Finally, this facility was also able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.