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Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center

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Updated Nov 1, 2023 by Nick Lata

Historical Rating
Grade: B-plus
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398 Bellevue Avenue,
Newport RI 02840

(401) 849-6600

83.77% estimated occupancy 1

Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center is located in Newport, Rhode Island, a city with a population of 24,727 people. With an overall grade of B+, this facility should work for most prospective patients. In fact, this nursing home is one of the top 50 facilities in Rhode Island. This facility is better in some categories than others, but it didn't have any poor grades in any of our major areas discussed below. More information about these categories can be found below.

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Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

  • Personal Care
  • Medication Management
  • Home Making
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Peritoneal Dialysis
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Orthopedic Rehabilitation
  • Catheter Care

Awards

Top Nursing Home in Rhode Island badge

Top Nursing Home in Rhode Island Awards 2020

Registered Staff Hours

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Facility Inspections

Grade: A

To pair with its strong overall score, we awarded this place a grade of A for our inspections rating. These inspection grades weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. While this place had a few deficiencies on its report, none were severe based on CMS' deficiency scale. Remember that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

Nurse Quality

Grade: A-minus

One of the other reasons we graded this nursing home so highly is that it received a very impressive nursing rating. In that area, we gave this nursing home an A-. The nursing score considers a number of datapoints. The most heavily weighted variable is the amount of time nurses spend with patients. This nursing home provides 0 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This place performed very well when it comes to avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers. We consider these areas to be good indicators of the quality of nursing care.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: B

This facility also was given a favorable long-term care score. In fact, we awarded it an above average score of B in this category. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to keep patients healthy and safe. This is different than skilled nursing or short-term care where the goal is to rehabilitate residents. In addition to considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we looked at the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility provided the vaccine to 93.693695 percent of its residents. This is a few points below what we expected but still a decent percentage. Finally, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B-minus

The next category we looked at was short-term care, where this nursing home was awarded a B-. This was this nursing home's worst area. This is still not a major area of concern. In calculating our short-term care ratings, we analyze a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing services, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This rating is frequently a fair measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. We weren't able to find registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The last datapoint we looked at in this category is the percentage of residents that eventually returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 4.5 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home. This figure was below the national average.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

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

Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A-minus

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 4.62% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This is the percent of residents who suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also referred to as bed sores, are often caused by patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the percentage of residents in a nursing home who sustain pressure ulcers.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A-minus

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 1.8% of Patients had Serious Falls

This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a fall leading to major injury.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: B

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 1.8% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percentage of patients that suffered from a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections are considered by many experts to be a measure of nursing care . UTI's are routinely associated with worse hygiene protocols. However, this metric may also be misleading for some facilities due to different reporting standards for infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 27.99% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This statistic is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that were administered antipsychotic drugs. Excessive reliance on these medications may mean that a nursing home is using these drugs to control patient behavior in scenarios where such medications are not medically indicated. However, some nursing homes may need to rely more on these medications due to having more residents suffering from cognitive disorders.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: C

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 26.64% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents taking antianxiety medications.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: B

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 3.34% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of patients demonstrating signs of depression. High rates of depression may indicate a lower level of care.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-minus

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 94.62% of Patients

This tells you the percentage of residents who have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. High vaccination rates should be demanded by residents.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-plus

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 12.94% of Patients

This tells you the percent of residents who required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 16.47% of Residents

This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 0.02 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This metric measures the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 16.47% of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of rehospitalizations per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: B-plus

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 10.26% of Patients

Measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding medical emergencies is one way to gauge patient well-being during rehabilitation.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: B

In Heatherwood Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, 77.07% of Resident

This metric is a measure of the percentage of short-term patients that experienced functional improvements.

Nearby Hospitals

  • Newport HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 1.46 miles away11 Friendship Street Newport Rhode Island 02840Voluntary non-profit - Private(401) 846-6400
  • South County Hospital IncAcute Care Hospitals 10.17 miles away100 Kenyon Ave Wakefield Rhode Island 02879Voluntary non-profit - Private(401) 782-8020
  • Saint Anne's HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 16.98 miles away795 Middle Street Fall River Massachusetts 02721Proprietary(508) 674-5600
  • Kent County Memorial HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 17.97 miles away455 Toll Gate Rd Warwick Rhode Island 02886Proprietary(401) 737-7010
  • Southcoast Hospital Group, IncAcute Care Hospitals 18.46 miles away363 Highland Avenue Fall River Massachusetts 02720Voluntary non-profit - Private(508) 679-3131

Nearby Dialysis

  • Wakefield Dialysis Center10.37 miles away10 High Street Suite C Wakefield Rhode Island 02879CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 19 (401) 792-3450
  • Dialysis Center of Tiverton15.33 miles away22 Hurst Lane Tiverton Rhode Island 02878Dialysis Stations: 21 (401) 624-4403
  • Fresenius Medical Care of Warwick17.59 miles away2814 Post Road Warwick Rhode Island 02886CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 25 (401) 738-4050
  • Dialysis Center of West Warwick17.83 miles away1775 Bald Hill Road Warwick Rhode Island 02886CMS Rating: 5 stars Dialysis Stations: 34 (401) 823-8420
  • Fall River Kidney Center LLC19.66 miles away48 Weaver Street Fall River Massachusetts 02720CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 41 (508) 677-4911
  • Davita New Bedford Dialysis19.98 miles away237-B State Road North Dartmouth Massachusetts 02747CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 22 (508) 992-0629

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=415033