Heritage at Longview Healthcare Center
112 Ruthlynn Dr, Longview TX 75605 · (903) 753-8611 · 51.85% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Heritage at Longview Healthcare Center is a senior living facility located in Longview, Texas. This city has a population of 102,348 people. With an overall grade of F, we consider this to be a lower end nursing home. Keep in mind that Longview received a city grade of C, so should look at other options in the city as well. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its impressive inspection reports. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category grades
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 140 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Limited Liability company
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received an impressive government inspection report this year. As a result, it earned one of our highest grades in that category with a grade of A-. Inspection scores are tied to pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. You should especially avoid facilities that have severe deficiencies associated with endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 7 deficiencies on its inspection report. Overall, this is still a solid inspection report, but we'd always recommend looking into any deficiencies you find troubling.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's next most respectable category was long-term care, but it still received a grade of just D in that area. This turns out to be a relatively poor grade. For residents looking for a permanent place to live rather than rehabilitation, long-term care is a very important category. After looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination records. We were pleased to discover that this facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients for pneumonia. To our surprise, this facility was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.34 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than many nursing homes. Sadly, some of its other scores in the category were not as favorable as these.
Short-term Care Quality
The next category we assessed was short-term care. This facility's was given an abysmal short-term care score where it was given an F. Short-term care grades are generally used to judge a facility's performance with rehabilitation To have highly rated rehabilitation services, facilities generally need to have better levels of skilled nursing services. Skilled nursing includes registered nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists and other highly trained professionals. With its grade in this category, we were not surprised to find that this facility is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours offered to its residents based on the measures we looked at. Honestly, this was about what we expected to find. Finally, we considered the number 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 44.2 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.
Nurse Quality
The last area we analyzed was nursing. This nursing home was given a poor grade of F in this category. The nursing rating analyzes quite a few subcategories, however, the paramount one is the level of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility provided just 2.9 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. On top of receiving below average marks for nursing hours, this facility was less impressive in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing scores. We looked at the percentage of patients suffering pressure ulcers and found that this facility was at approximately 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is likely a bad sign when you consider that many pressure ulcers are believed to be preventable with better nursing care. Unfortunately, this statistic really pulled down this nursing home's nursing score substantially.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage at Longview Healthcare Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This tells you the percentage of long-term residents who suffer from new or worsened pressure ulcers or bed sores. We factor in this statistic in computing both nursing and long-term care grades.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint indicates the percentage of long-term patients that suffered a fall leading to severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in computing our nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of long-term stay residents who suffered from urinary tract infections. UTI's may be an indication of a facility with lower levels of hygiene. Nevertheless, this statistic could also be skewed for certain facilities due to different reporting standards for UTI's.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were given antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic medications are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, such as cognitive disorders. Tragically, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may suggest a nursing home is using these medications to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percent of patients prescribed antianxiety drugs. These drugs are used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients who are showing signs of depression. Some would argue this is a reliable measure of patient quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who were administered the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient health.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percent of patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric tracks the percent of long-term care residents that retained mobility levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of patient care. Avoiding hospitalizations is key to the physical well-being of nursing home patients.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term care. Avoiding the hospital during rehabilitation is critical to restoring the physical abilities of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This metric measures the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per thousand days of short-term patient care. Avoiding emergency medical situations is one way to gauge the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This metric is a measure of the percent of short-term stay patients that experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Some experts would argue that this is a reliable measure of rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better