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Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center

  • Nursing Home

Updated Sep 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating
Grade: B
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Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center's website

501 South Kentucky Ave,
Mason City IA 50401

(641) 423-2121

64.48% estimated occupancy 1

Located in Mason City, Iowa, Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center is one of four available nursing homes there. With an overall rating of B. After looking at the other nursing homes in Mason City, this appears to be a higher quality selection than quite a few of them. Based on all of the relevant data, you could do much worse than this place. We were also pleased to find that this facility didn't have any poor grades in any of the four major categories. Additional information about its category grades can be found below.

Quick Details

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

Specialized Services

  • Home Making
  • Transportation
  • Medical Transportation
  • Speech Therapy
  • IV Antibiotic Therapy
  • Dentistry
  • Wound Care
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Tracheotomy Care
  • Podiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Physical Therapy
  • Respiratory Therapy
  • Nutritional Counseling
  • Laboratory
  • Recreational Therapy
  • Bariatric Care
  • Colostomy Care

Registered Staff Hours

Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2021)
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Nurse Quality

Grade: A

On top of earning a great overall score, this facility also received an elite nursing score. We awarded them one of our better scores in that area, with an A. Our nursing rating weighs quite a few datapoints, but the primary one is the number of nurse hours spent with patients. This facility provided 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed 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 nursing home the state in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can many times be avoided by providing better nursing care, such as employing a policy of turning residents more frequently.

Facility Inspections

Grade: A-minus

This facility also performed well in our inspection category, which is based on the facility's recent inspections. We gave it an A- for that category. Arguably the most significant factor we consider in determining our inspection scores is deficiencies. Deficiencies can be found on a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places with higher scores in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving things like patient abuse. Although this place had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. A few minor dings are not necessarily the end of the world.

Short-term Care Quality

Grade: B

This nursing home received an impressive short-term care score as well. We gave it one of our higher scores in that category with a grade of B. Short-term care ratings are based on a facility's quantity of skilled highly skilled professionals. This means a wide range of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, not to mention other forms of therapy. We were not able to track down registered nurse or physical therapy staffing data for this facility. The final statistic we considered in this area is the number of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.

Long-term Care Quality

Grade: C

The final category we analyzed is long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is a decent grade in this area. Long-term care ratings are meaningful for patients needing non-healthcare services such as personal care. After considering the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this facility vaccinated 97.98387 percent of its patients against pneumonia. This nursing home also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

FDCB-BB+A-AA+Oct 18Sep 22

Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

Grade: A

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 6.11% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This indicates the percent of long-term care patients who suffer from pressure ulcers. We've found that pressure ulcers are a great indicator of a facility's nursing care quality.

Minimizes Serious Falls

Grade: A

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 3.69% of Patients had Serious Falls

This statistic tells you the percentage of long-term patients which had falls which caused major injury. Falls can arise for a variety of reasons, but high rates of major falls could be a sign of lower quality nursing care.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

Grade: C

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 3.09% of Patients had UTIs

This is the percentage of patients that have had a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care . UTI's are often linked to lower quality nursing care. However, this statistic can be misleading for some nursing homes due to different reporting standards for UTI's.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

Grade: D

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 16.77% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for many medical conditions, including cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, in limited situations, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to control patient behavior.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

Grade: A-minus

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 18.7% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This tells you the percentage of residents prescribed antianxiety medications. These drugs are commonly used to treat residents experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

Grade: C

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 4.48% of Patients

This indicates the percentage of residents who are demonstrating signs of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

Grade: B-plus

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 94.58% of Patients

This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay patients that received the flu and pneumonia vaccines.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

Grade: B-minus

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 16.82% Percentage of Patients

This is the percentage of residents that required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

Grade: B

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 19.24% Percentage of Residents

This metric measures the percentage of long-term care residents that remained mobile levels.

Hospitalizations

Grade: B-plus

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This datapoint measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

Grade: B

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 19.24 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

Measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

Grade: F

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 11.86 Percentage of Patients

This is the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is typically a correlation between keeping patients out of the emergency room and the quality of care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

Grade: A

In Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center, 79.45% Percentage of Resident

This tells you the percentage of short-term care patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

Scores for Mason City, IA

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

Looking for more options? Mason City, Iowa has 3 other nursing homes

Nearby Hospitals

  • Mercy Medical Center-North IowaAcute Care Hospitals 1.77 miles away1000 Fourth Street Sw Mason City Iowa 50401Voluntary non-profit - Private(641) 428-7000

Nearby Dialysis

  • Fmc - Mason City4.3 miles away910 N Eisenhower Ave Mason City Iowa 50401Dialysis Stations: 21 (641) 423-6015

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Footnotes:

  1. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/profile.html#ID=165367