Heritage Crossings

To go along with a great overall score, we awarded this facility an A for our inspections rating. Our inspection ratings weigh a host of factors found on a facility's inspection report. One key criteria we consider is the number and severity of deficiencies. Places with better scores in this area generally have few severe deficiencies. Fortunately, although this nursing home had a few minor dings on its report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are ones found in categories G through L. This tells you the government inspectors did not consider any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient safety or health. We should note that deficiency-free inspections are uncommon in the industry.

One of the other reasons we graded this facility so highly is that it earned a very impressive nursing grade. Nursing turned out to be its second best category grade. In that category, we awarded this nursing home an A-. Nursing ratings are based in large part on levels of nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This place performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

Turning to our next category, this nursing home also received a grade of B+ for its long-term care rating. This is a well above average grade in this category. Facilities that excel in this category typically provide residents with more supervision and stay on top of routine healthcare services. Once we assessed the quantity of nursing care, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This nursing home vaccinated 94.475136 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is what we like to see. Pneumonia tragically can be a life or death condition for nursing home patients so we like it when a facility doesn't leave this to chance. Clearly, this nursing home is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its residents out of the hospital. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per one thousand long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Turning to the last category, this facility also performed admirably in the short-term care category. We gave it a B+ for that category. This completed a first-rate report card. Short-term care grades are critical for residents looking for rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a vast spectrum of nursing services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and occupational therapists, as well as other types of therapy. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, according to the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. The last statistic we considered in this category is the percentage of residents who were able to leave the nursing home and return home. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's residents were able to return home.