Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center is a facility in Harvey, Illinois. This city has a total of 29,594 people. Our grading scheme was not favorable to this facility, as we gave it an overall score of F. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Harvey. We would not blame you if you're ready to stop reading and find another facility. However, if you want to learn more about this facility's category grades, inspection grades are discussed in the next section.
Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
- Memory Care
Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Lata
Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- No Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Secure Memory Care
- Offers Post-Acute Care
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Mental Health
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Recreational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
Although we gave this facility a terrible overall grade, we awarded it a B- for our inspections rating. In fact, the facility received very impressive inspection report this year. Our inspection ratings are based on many datapoints found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key item to look for on these reports. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to the well being of residents. While this facility had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones labeled as categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. A few minor deficiencies are not necessarily the end of the world.
Long-term Care Quality
Tragically, we gave this facility an F for its long-term care grade. For residents looking for a permanent residence rather than skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. On top of considering the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility gave the vaccine to 95.51935 percent of its residents. Surprisingly, this nursing home was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days. Unfortunately, some of its other scores in this category were not as favorable as these.
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Short-term Care Quality
This nursing home wound up receiving a a very poor score in our short-term care category. It received an F in this category. In determining our short-term care ratings, we analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses, respiratory therapists, physical therapists and other types of therapists. Our purpose is to devise a tool for sizing up the rehabilitation services of nursing homes. Based on its poor score in this category, we were not surprised to find that this place provided substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other nursing homes. Finally, we considered the percentage of patients that were able to return home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.
Nurse Quality
The final category we rated is nursing. Sadly, it received a lowly F in this category, which is an abysmal score. Our nursing score is based on quite a few data points, most of which are associated with levels of nurse staffing. With just 0.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day, this place's nurse staffing levels were quite a bit below average. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing scores. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 8.73% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This indicates the percent of patients that have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage due to remaining in the same position for an excessive period of time.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 3.45% of Patients had Serious Falls
This indicates the percent of residents who sustained a fall leading to major injury.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 2.6% of Patients had UTIs
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are routinely associated with nursing homes with worse hygiene protocols. Additional nurse staffing reduces the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Note that this datapoint is affected by by the fact that nursing homes have different reporting standards for UTI's.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 18.11% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients prescribed antipsychotic drugs. These medications are sometimes used to treat a variety of conditions, such as Alzheimer's or other dementias.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 19.04% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients receiving antianxiety medications.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 30.45% of Patients
This tells you the percent of residents who are showing symptoms of depression.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 87.4% of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 13.9% Percentage of Patients
This indicates the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate erosion of a patient's medical condition.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 17.56% Percentage of Residents
This metric measures the percentage of long-term residents who remained mobile levels. Many would argue that the ability to move around is critical to residents' mental and physical well-being.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 17.56 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Heather Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 71.65% Percentage of Resident
This tells you the percent of short-term residents who saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Higher levels of autonomy with ADL's often correlates with superior rehabilitation services.
Nearby Hospitals
- Ingalls Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.13 miles away1 Ingalls Drive Harvey Illinois 60426Voluntary non-profit - Private(708) 333-2300
- Advocate South Suburban HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 3.2 miles away17800 S Kedzie Ave Hazel Crest Illinois 60429Voluntary non-profit - Church(708) 799-8000
- Roseland Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 6.29 miles away45 W 111th Street Chicago Illinois 60628Voluntary non-profit - Other(773) 995-3000
- Franciscan Health HammondAcute Care Hospitals 7.24 miles away5454 Hohman Ave Hammond Indiana 46320Voluntary non-profit - Church(219) 932-2300
- Little Company of Mary HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.08 miles away2800 W 95th St Evergreen Park Illinois 60805Voluntary non-profit - Other(708) 422-6200
- Advocate Christ Hospital & Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 8.67 miles away4440 W 95th Street Oak Lawn Illinois 60453Voluntary non-profit - Church(708) 684-8000
- Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 8.93 miles away901 Macarthur Blvd Munster Indiana 46321Voluntary non-profit - Private(219) 836-1600
- Palos Community HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 9.02 miles away12251 South 80th Avenue Palos Heights Illinois 60463Voluntary non-profit - Private(708) 923-4000
Nearby Dialysis
- Beverly Dialysis1.3 miles away8109 South Western Ave Chicago Illinois 60620CMS Rating: 1 stars Dialysis Stations: 16 (773) 778-0173
- Davita - Harvey Dialysis1.39 miles away16641 S. Halsted St., Ste A Harvey Illinois 60426Dialysis Stations: 18 (708) 210-9500
- Davita - South Holland2.2 miles away16110 Lasalle Street South Holland Illinois 60473CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (708) 331-7697
- Fresenius Medical Care Chicagoland, LLC2.93 miles away17524 Carriage Way Hazel Crest Illinois 60429Dialysis Stations: 16 (708) 798-2899
- Davita - Hazelcrest3.91 miles away3470 W 183rd St Hazel Crest Illinois 60429CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 17 (708) 799-3101
- Davita - Country Club Hills4.01 miles away4215 W 167th Street Country Club Hills Illinois 60478CMS Rating: 2 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (708) 206-1845
- Fmc - Crestwood4.6 miles away4815 Midlothian Turnpike Midlothian Illinois 60445CMS Rating: 3 stars Dialysis Stations: 24 (708) 293-1665
- Concerto Dialysis4.61 miles away14255 S Cicero Ave Midlothian Illinois 60445Dialysis Stations: 9 (847) 233-1200