Heritage Center
1201 W Buena Vista Rd, Evansville IN 47710 · (812) 429-0700 · 80.05% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Lata
Heritage Center is in Evansville, Indiana. This city has a population of 182,901 people. We gave this nursing home an overall grade of B+. A grade of this caliber requires above average marks in most areas. Even in a city with 17 nursing homes, this nursing home caught our attention as a great choice. The best aspect of this nursing home's strong profile is its short-term care score. We discuss short-term care in the next paragraph
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 172 Beds
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For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Short-term Care Quality
To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home an A for short-term care. In determining our short-term care ratings, we look at a nursing home's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists respiratory therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is often a fair assessment of the facility's rehabilitation. This nursing home elevated its grade in this category by offering more care from registered nurses to its residents than the average facility. The final datapoint we looked at in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. It fared as well as just about any facility in Indiana in this area with 62.2 percent of its residents returning home.
Facility Inspections
In addition, this facility also excelled in the area of inspections, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Perhaps the most critical factor we consider in computing our inspection scores is deficiencies. These deficiencies can be found on a facility's recent inspection reports. Facilities with higher grades in this category typically avoided the most severe deficiencies involving patient abuse or death. While this facility had a few deficiencies on its report, none of them were serious based on CMS' scale. We should note that deficiency-free inspection reports are uncommon in this industry.
Nurse Quality
This facility is also strong in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of B+. It outperformed most nursing homes in this category. When computing a facility's nursing rating, we consider the quantity of hours nurses commit to residents as well as the skill levels of the nurses. This place provides an incredible 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is far better than what is provided by most facilities. Lastly, this facility also performed well in several of the quality-based metrics we assessed. By way of illustration, in terms of the number of its patients suffering falls leading to serious injury, this nursing home performed better than the national average. This is often a good indicator that a nursing home has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Long-term Care Quality
The final area we scored is long-term care, in which this facility was given a grade of C. Although this is its weakest category rating, this is nevertheless a middle of the pack score. Our long-term care grade is used to gauge a facility's performance as a traditional nursing home, as opposed to focusing on the skilled nursing services offered by a rehabilitation facility. In addition to patient-friendly nursing hour statistics, this nursing home's vaccination data is above average as well. In fact, this facility vaccinated 99.80237 percent of its residents for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With only 1.35 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has less hospitalizations than the average nursing home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This statistic gauges the percentage of long-term stay residents which suffered from new or worsened pressure ulcers. We find that pressure ulcers are a reliable barometer of the quality of nursing care a facility provides.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This tells you the percent of residents who have had a fall which caused serious injury.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of long-term care residents that suffered from urinary tract infections. Although a higher rate infections could reflect poorly on a facility's cleanliness, it can be problematic to compare between facilities due to reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of patients given antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications may be vital to many residents, it is important to ensure these medications are being used appropriately. In limited situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This metric is an indication of the percent of long-term residents who were given antianxiety medication. These medications are typically given to patients experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This datapoint is a measure of the percentage of long-term care residents exhibiting symptoms of depression. Some argue that this is a reliable measure of quality of life.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This tells you the percentage of residents who were given the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Higher vaccination rates should be the norm at this point.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This tells you the percentage of residents that required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate erosion of a patient's health.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This is the percent of residents who were able to retain mobility over time. Preserving mobility can be a great sign for residents' health.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This datapoint is a measure of the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric measures the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care. Keeping residents out of the hospital during rehabilitation is important to restoring the physical well-being of patients.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percentage of short-term stay residents that saw functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. High levels of performance with ADL's usually correlates with superior rehabilitation.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better