Heartland of Waterville
8885 Browning Drive, Waterville OH 43566 · (419) 878-8523 · 50.23% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Heartland of Waterville is a large nursing home located in Waterville, Ohio. Our grading system was not favorable to this facility, as we gave it an overall score of F. If you are not happy with this facility's poor overall grade, you may find your options to be limited in Waterville. The city has just one other nursing home. If you aren't deterred by this facility's profile, you can continue reading to find out about its category scores. Inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 126 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we gave this nursing home a terrible overall score, we gave it a B+ for our inspections category. This is the result of the nursing home receiving a decent government inspection report this year. Inspection scores are tied to many items found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these inspections. Most importantly, you should avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This place was hit with 7 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered to be major deficiencies. This means that CMS did not consider any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. A couple minor deficiencies are not the end of the world.
Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home's second most respectable category is short-term care, but it still earned just a D in that category. This turns out to be a relatively poor score. Our short-term care ratings are considered to be more important for individuals needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation usually requires additional highly-skilled nursing. Skilled nursing means not just nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other types of therapy. Given its grade in this category, we were not stunned to discover that this nursing home is well below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the figures we looked at. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who who were able to eventually return home from this nursing home. This facility did not fare well here either. We found that just 46.3 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
We were stunned to find that this facility also excelled in the area of nursing. We gave it an impressive grade of D for that category, which is one of our best grades. The nursing rating is based on several factors, most of which are based on quantities of nurse staffing. This facility provided 3.6 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is below the national average. This facility also had terrible marks in some of the quality-based metrics to pair with its weak nursing hours. We looked at the percentage of residents suffering pressure ulcers and we were disappointed. This place was at approximately 1.5 times the national average in this area. This is a bad sign when you consider that many bed sores could be avoided with better nursing care. This metric helped pull down this nursing home's nursing rating significantly.
Long-term Care Quality
The final category we assessed was long-term care, which turned out to be a weak spot for this facility. We gave this nursing home a grade of just D in long-term care. For patients looking for a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are very important. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This nursing home vaccinated 98.51852 percent of its patients. Surprisingly, this place also keeps its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had just 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category weren't as favorable as these.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heartland of Waterville Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percent of patients who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in severe injuries are considered to be a measure of the quality of nursing care . Major falls are often the result of lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients that sustained UTI's. UTI's may be a sign of lower quality nursing care. Nevertheless, this datapoint may be misleading for some facilities due to inconsistent reporting standards for infections.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for many conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This statistic is an indication of the percentage of long-term care residents which are administered antianxiety medication. These drugs are given to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is the percent of patients who are exhibiting symptoms of depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of patients who needed increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This indicates the percentage of residents that remained mobile levels over time. Retaining mobility can be a great sign for residents' well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This indicates the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This tells you the percentage of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better