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Heather Hill Healthcare Center

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  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B-minus
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6630 Kentucky Ave,
New Port Richey FL 34653

(727) 849-6939

81.14% estimated occupancy 1

With an address in New Port Richey, Florida, Heather Hill Healthcare Center is one of seven available facilities in this area. This is a good nursing home with a B- overall grade. This grade is right in line with the city grade in New Port Richey. At the end of the day, this nursing home should be a solid choice for most people. One of the highlights of this facility's report card is its strong inspection reports, which you can find in the next section.

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Quick Details

  • Accepts Medicare 1
  • Accepts Medicaid 1
  • No CCRC
  • Has Resident Council
  • No Family Council
  • Non profit - Other
  • Secure Memory Care 
  • Offers Hospice
  • Offers Post-Acute Care 
  • Offers Respite Care
  • Offers Inpatient Rehab
  • Offers Outpatient Rehab

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • Stroke Recovery
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cardiac Therapy
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Diabetes Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Pharmacy
  • Laboratory
  • X-Ray
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Catheter Care

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

The primary reason this facility received a decent overall grade is its impeccable inspections in recent years. We awarded it one of our higher scores in that category, with a grade of A-. This is a much better score than the place's overall grade, which was decent but not in the elite range. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection report. One of the most important criteria we look at is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with higher grades in this category tend to have few of these severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had zero severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are those found in categories G through L. This means the government inspectors did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in the industry.

Nurse Quality

Grade: B-plus

In addition, we awarded this nursing home a grade of B+ in our nursing category. This is one of our better grades. Nursing grades are largely associated with the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also looked at several nursing quality-based metrics and this facility excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility Florida in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can often be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as employing a system of turning a patient more often.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

We also gave this facility a middle of the pack grade in the category of long-term care, where we awarded it a C. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for people in need of more traditional assistance associated with activities of daily living. After considering the quantity of care provided by aids and other staff, we turned to the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 91.408936 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be a few points below what we expected but still a reasonably acceptable figure. Nevertheless, this nursing home keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: D

The next area we looked at was short-term care, which was this facility's worst category. We awarded this nursing home a grade of D in this category. Sadly, this grade pulled down the facility's overall profile a bit. Our short-term care grades are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide spectrum of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, not to mention other types of therapy. In this nursing home's case, we found that it provides less physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than the average facility. Lastly, we looked at the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 3.9 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Dec 23

Heather Hill Healthcare Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-minus

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 4.98% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This statistic measures the percent of long-term stay patients that suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We consider this statistic when determining our nursing grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 1.72% of Patients had Serious Falls

This is the percentage of residents that suffered from a major fall. Falls leading to major injury are often linked to lower quality nursing care. Better nursing protocols can reduce the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain major falls.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 1.79% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of residents that sustained a urinary tract infection. These infections are sometimes linked to inadequate hygiene.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 17.05% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used only where medically required. In some cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may suggest a facility is using these medications to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: B-minus

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 22.88% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term patients taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: A+

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 0% of Patients

This is the percentage of residents exhibiting signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: C

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 92.2% of Patients

This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient health.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: D

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 21.64% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients that needed additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Higher levels of needing for assistance with activities of daily living may indicate the deterioration of a resident's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: A-minus

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 21.77% of Residents

This is the percentage of patients that were able to retain mobility over time. Optimizing mobility is often a good sign for residents' health.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-minus

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

Measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care. Minimizing hospitalizations is important to the physical well-being of residents.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: C

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 21.77% of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term patient care. There is usually a correlation between staying out of the hospital and a nursing home's quality of short-term rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: A

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 5.92% of Patients

This metric tracks the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to assess patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: D

In Heather Hill Healthcare Center, 66.7% of Resident

This is the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of autonomy with activities of daily living generally correlates with superior rehabilitation.

Scores for New Port Richey, FL

  • Overall Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Nurse Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B
  • Short-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
  • Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus

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Nearby Dialysis

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