Heritage Care Center

While this nursing home's overall grade was decent, it really excelled in the category of inspections. In fact, we awarded it a grade of A- for that category, which is one of our highest scores. Inspection scores are based on pieces of information located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that receive favorable grades in this category tend to have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these places should not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with risks to patient safety. This facility was assessed 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but fortunately none of the deficiencies were considered to be severe deficiencies. This means that the inspectors didn't deem any of these deficiencies to pose an immediate threat to patient safety or health. We should point out that deficiency-free inspection reports are rare in the industry.

This facility also received an impressive long-term care grade. As a matter of fact, we gave them a B in this category, which is one of our better. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is a good sign for resident care and indicates that the facility is well-staffed with nurses aids. One of the factors we considered on top of nursing hours was vaccines. This nursing home provided the pneumonia vaccination to 99.50249 percent of its residents. Vaccination is a great way to minimize unnecessary deaths for the nursing home population. Lastly, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. It had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

This nursing home was awarded its third best category grade in the category of short-term care. We gave this facility a grade of B- in this area, which is a reasonably acceptable grade. In the area of short-term care, we strive to assess measures of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We analyze the nursing home's skilled nursing services, including those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this nursing home provided information about its staffing of registered nurses or physical therapists. The last metric we considered in this area is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 0 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home, which is below average.

Turning to our last area, this facility was given a decent nursing grade of C. Our nursing score includes many factors, however, the primary consideration is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a much lower figure than we are used to seeing. Finally, our nursing scores also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. Despite not having the highest total nursing hours, this nursing home performed admirably in the metric of preventing major falls. This is often an indicator that a nursing home has quality controls in place. Some falls could be avoided if a facility supplies enough nurses aids to assist its patients.