Heritage Center for Rehab and Speciality Care
24 North Hamilton Street, Minster OH 45865 · (419) 628-2396 · 69.75% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Nick Reese
Heritage Center for Rehab and Speciality Care is an average-sized nursing home located in Minster, Ohio. Featuring an overall score of D, this is a relatively poor nursing home. If you are not satisfied with this facility's pedestrian overall grade, you may have to look in other cities as this is the only nursing home in Minster. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's report card is its strong inspection grade. You can continue reading to find out about inspections and other category scores
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 83 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Individual
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Family Council:
Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Facility Inspections
While we were not high on this nursing home overall, we awarded it a grade of A- for our inspections rating. This score is significantly more impressive than the nursing home's overall score. Inspection scores are tied to several datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these reports. You should especially avoid nursing homes with severe deficiencies linked to endangerment of patients. This particular nursing home received 4 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
The next most favorable area we gave this nursing home in any area came in the area of long-term care, where we awarded it a grade of C. In the category of long-term care, we focus more on the quantity of services provided by a nursing home, as opposed to more sophisticated services. Once we finished looking at the quantity of nursing care, we turned to the nursing home's vaccination data. We were pleased to discover that this nursing home vaccinated 99.545456 percent of its patients against pneumonia. Lastly, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had only 0.92 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.
Nurse Quality
We gave this facility a grade of just D for our nursing rating. The nursing rating consists of a handful of components, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This facility offered just 3.2 hours of nursing care per patient per day. This is an alarmingly low total. To go along with its below average total nursing hours per resident, this nursing home had bad marks in several of the quality-based metrics we looked at in calculating our nursing grades. We looked at the percent of residents having falls leading to major injury. This place was at more than 150 percent of the national average in this statistic. This is concerning in light of the fact that many falls could likely be avoided with better nursing care. This ended up sealing the nursing home's fate of receiving a poor nursing rating.
Short-term Care Quality
Turning to our final category, we awarded this nursing home a grade of D for our short-term care category. This is the facility's weakest category score. In the area of short-term care, we seek to evaluate indicators of a nursing home's rehabilitation services. We look at a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as those performed by registered nurses and physical, occupational and other therapists. Given its grade in this area, we were not surprised to learn that this place is well below average in terms of the number of registered nurse and physical therapy hours provided to its patients based on the measures we looked at. The final statistic we considered in this area is the percentage of patients who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We discovered that just 47.1 percent of this facility's patients were able to return home.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Heritage Center for Rehab and Speciality Care Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers are skin damage resulting from remaining in one position for an excessive period of time.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This is the percentage of residents who sustained a major fall. Falls leading to major injuries are considered to be a barometer of nursing care . Major falls are often caused by lower quality nursing care.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term stay patients who suffered from a UTI. While more of these infections may reflect poorly on a nursing home's nursing care, it can be difficult to compare different nursing homes due to reporting standards.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term care patients receiving antipsychotic medications. While antipsychotic medications serve an important medical purpose, it is important to make sure these drugs are being used only where medically required. In limited cases, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may mean a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This is the percentage of patients prescribed antianxiety medications. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents suffering from anxiety and depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term patients showing depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percentage of long-term stay patients who received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home patients, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term patients who required additional assistance with activities of daily living over time. Activities of daily living include activities such as moving around and using the bathroom.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric tracks the percentage of long-term stay residents that retained mobility levels. Some believe that the ability to move around is vital to patients physical and mental well-being.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
Measures the number of hospitalizations per thousand days of patient care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This tells you the number of rehospitalizations per 1,000 days of short-term patient care. There is generally a correlation between reduced hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This is the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
This is the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better