Heritage Center

Although we were not high on this place's overall performance, it actually received an impressive inspection report this year with few dings from the applicable government inspectors. As a result, it received one of our better grades in that category with a B. These inspection ratings weigh several factors, including deficiencies and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these issues by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. Although this facility had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none of them were major deficiencies based on CMS' deficiency scale. A couple minor deficiencies aren't necessarily the end of the world.

This nursing home's next highest category ended up being its long-term care grade, where it received a grade of C. Our long-term care grades are more meaningful for folks in need of more traditional assistance associated with activities of daily living. After considering the volume of care provided by nurses aids and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination statistics. This facility vaccinated 97.29207 percent of its patients for pneumonia, which is higher than the majority of nursing homes. This facility keeps its patients out of the hospital. Indeed, it had only 0.02 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home's second least favorable score was short-term care, where it earned just a D in that category. This is a well below average grade. In determining our short-term care ratings, we quantify the facility's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other types of skilled professionals. Our goal is to formulate a scale for sizing up the rehabilitation services of various nursing homes. With a grade of this caliber for this category, we were not surprised to learn this nursing home was well below average in multiple staffing areas we focus on. It supplied substantially fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most nursing homes. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who ultimately returned home from this facility. This facility didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 4.7 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home. This figure was well off the national average.

The last area we assessed was nursing, is this facility's least impressive category. We gave this nursing home a grade of D in this category. There are numerous criteria within this grade. Most of the factors are tied to the quantity and quality of nurse staffing. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also looked at some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This facility fared well in the area of avoiding major falls and pressure ulcers.